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Los Angeles (Calif.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Common Lives/Lesbian Lives records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0102
Abstract

An Iowa-City based lesbian literary journal published all forms of creative expression written by self-defined lesbians.

Dates: 1980-2001

Midori Shimanouchi Lederer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TAM.596
Abstract Born in California, Midori Shimanouchi Lederer (1923-2005) founded JASSI, Inc. (Japanese American Social Services), a non-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to addressing gaps in social services for the Japanese American community. In 1942, Shimanouchi and her family were forcibly removed from their home and incarerated with 110,00 other Nisei at the Central Utah Relocation Center, a concentration camp (euphemistically referred to as an internment camp) in Topaz, Utah. She...
Dates: 1943-1999