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Vincent and Lily Chin During Holidays
By all accounts, young Vincent thrived under the loving care of his doting adoptive parents, shown here with his mother Lily when he was about eight years old.
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Vincent Chin as Young Boy
Lily and her husband were drawn to the picture of a little boy in a Chinese orphanage. Though arranging the international adoption took a few years, they stayed connected to their intended son through additional photos that the orphanage sent.
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“David” C.W. Hing Chin Army Service
“David” C.W. Hing Chin (right, with cap), Vincent’s father, served as a GI in the US Army during World War II. He posthumously received a Congressional Gold Medal of Honor for his service in 2024, alongside many other previously unrecognized Chinese American veterans.
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Vincent Chin with Friends
Vincent Chin (first row, far right) became a confident and well-liked young man who had many friends, as shown in this photo taken at one of the many celebrations in the close-knit Chinatown-based community of Detroit.
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Raise Your Voice Mural
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s Raise Your Voice mural of Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X, at the Museum of the City of New York, 2022.
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From Harlem with Love Mural
This “From Harlem With Love” mural is located on the corner of 125th Street and Old Broadway in New York City, a block from where Yuri Kochiyama lived at the Manhattanville House from 1960 to 1999.
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Shuji Nakamura’s Artwork
Artist Shuji Nakamura (right) presents his painting to Audee Kochiyama-Holman (left) at Yuri’s Kochiyama’s Los Angeles memorial in 2014. Nakamura created the portrait for the “RISE: Love. Revolution. The Black Panther Party” exhibit.
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Eddy Zheng and Ben Wang
Eddy Zheng (right) and filmmaker Ben Wang (left) at a screening of the documentary Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story in San Francisco, CA.
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Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Yuri Kochiyama inspired the formation of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee. The APSC, formed in 2002, has organized against Southeast Asian deportation cases, led programs in prisons, and designed culturally relevant reentry programs.
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Bill Kochiyama’s Testimony
Bill Kochiyama’s testimony before the CWRIC, 1981.
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Bill Kochiyama at CWRIC Hearing
Bill Kochiyama testifies about his concentration camp experiences at the New York Congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) hearings, November 23, 1981, with New York activists displaying Bryon Goto’s posters behind him.
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Yuri Kochiyama and Dylcia Pagan
Kochiyama visits Dylcia Pagan in 1993 at the Dublin federal prison in Northern California.
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Yuri Kochiyama Arrest
Kochiyama being arrested during a protest on October 25, 1977. She was one of 29 activists who seized the Statue of Liberty to demand the release of five Puerto Rican nationalists who had been held in US prisons for a quarter century.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Poster
In 2010, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal organized a rally on his birthday to demand a new trial. Kochiyama was one of the activists appealing on his behalf.
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Asians for Mumia
Kochiyama was a strong supporter of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal since his arrest and imprisonment in the early 1980s. When Abu-Jamal was facing the death sentence in 1995, Kochiyama formed Asians for Mumia, bringing Asian Americans into the struggle.
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Yuri Kochiyama and Marilyn Buck
Yuri Kochiyama visiting Marilyn Buck in prison in Dublin, California.
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“‘TCB’ by Mae”
In “‘TCB’ by Mae,” Kochiyama writes about how Mae Mallory, herself injured, donated the monies raised to help her heal to another political cause. The North Star was the Kochiyamas’ annual newsletter. What do you think might motivate such generosity?
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Tommy Kochiyama at a Demonstration
Tommy Kochiyama at a demonstration against US military bases in Okinawa.
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Tommy and Jimmy Kochiyama at a Demonstration
Tommy Kochiyama (with headband) and Jimmy Kochiyama at a demonstration to commemorate the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in New York City’s Central Park, August 6, 1971.
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The Kochiyama Family at a Demonstration
Audee (left), Aichi (right) and Bill (behind Aichi) at a demonstration against the Vietnam War on August 15th, 1970.
