Interview with Aki Kurose conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project in 1985. In this interview Kurose discusses being incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center and the Minidoka Relocation Center, how the concentration camps undermined the traditional closeness of Japanese-American families, her family's response to Pearl Harbor, and her experience of being part of the first Japanese-American family to return to Seattle. She later became involved in the open housing movement in the 1950s and joined the Congress of Racial Equity. She was also a teacher for Seattle Public Schools, where she helped establish Washington state's first Head Start program. She is a namesake of a middle school, a low-income housing community, and a peace garden in Seattle.

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Re-digitized in 2025 from analog cassette to .wav file.
Transcript: Yes, scanned from original analog to .pdf (final); original hard copy of rough draft and final transcript in admin file.