Born in Seattle, Cherry Tanaka Kinoshita (1923-2008) was incarcerated at Minidoka Relocation Center during World War II. She married, returned to Seattle in 1950, and raised a family.

Kinoshita was particularly active in efforts to obtain an apology and reparations from the United States government for the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. In 1980, Kinoshita became a founder of the Washington Coalition for Redress, a campaign to obtain restitution from Washington State and the Seattle Public Schools for their wartime actions. In addition, she served as Pacific Northwest Coordinator and a national vice president of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), which also pressed for restitution. The efforts of many were successful, and the President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act in August 1988. Kinoshita received numerous awards for her work.

In this image, taken a few weeks before the signing of the Civil Liberties Act, Cherry Kinoshita holds the iconic ichi-ni-san logo created by artist Frank Fujii in 1978 for the first "Day of Remembrance," and symbolizing the three generations of incarcerated Japanese Americans.

Caption information source: The Seattle Times: October 3, 1988, p. B2; November 8, 1990, p. D3; July 31, 2008.
Caption information source: Densho website at https://densho.org/the-first-day-of-remembrance-thanksgiving-weekend-1978/