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Linda T. Lee collection on the Pratt Institute "Asian Awareness" event, April 1971

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.: MS#2076
Bib ID 15823539 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Lee, Linda T.
Title Linda T. Lee collection on the Pratt Institute "Asian Awareness" event, April 1971
Physical Description 0.42 Linear Feet
Language(s) English .
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Arrangement

Description

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nine original photographs and two printed items.

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Conditions Governing Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on site.

Conditions Governing Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Linda T. Lee collection on the Pratt Institute "Asian Awareness" event; Box and Folder; University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Materials

Yuri and Bill Kochiyama Papers. Columbia University Libraries.

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Subject Headings

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Asian Americans -- Civil rights Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Iijima, Chris Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Kochiyama, Yuri Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Miyamoto, Nobuko, 1939- Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Pratt Institute Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Content Description

Linda T. Lee organized and photographed a series of Asian Awareness events on Pratt Institute's campus, March 20 and 22, 1971. Speakers and political activists were invited to speak on the Vietnam War and Asian hate activities in the US. The program came together with a community of Asian artists producing banners and flyers while Lee volunteered as program emcee. During the events, Lee also took photographs of the speakers, as well as crowd shots of students, professors and local activists. This collection consists of those photos, including images of Yuri Kochiyama and her family, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and Chris Iijima.

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Series I: Photographs


Yuri Kochiyama:



Box 1 Folder 1 Photograph of Yuri Kochiyama standing at the microphone with banner to her left


Box 1 Folder 2 Photograph of Yuri Kochiyama in profile


Box 1 Folder 3 Photograph of Yuri Kochiyama at microphone with group seated to right

Seated: Linda T. Lee, Chris Iijima, John Kao (Asian American studies activist), Arlan Huang (smoking citarette -- artist and community activist NYC)


Nobuko Miyamoto:


Box 1 Folder 4 Photograph of Nobuko Miyamoto at microphone


Box 1 Folder 5 Photograph of Nobuko Miyamoto at microphone with right arm raised


Box 1 Folder 6 Photograph of the folk duo Nobuko Miyamoto and Chris Iijima

Chris Kwando Iijima (1948–2005) was an American folksinger, educator and legal scholar. Together with Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto and Charlie Chin they constituted the group "Yellow Pearl". They recorded an album "A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America" in 1973.


Box 1 Folder 7 Photograph of Nobuko Miyamoto with Zulu Williams (grandson of Yuri Kochiyama)


Group:


Box 1 Folder 8 Photograph of group seated on grass with Professor Shaftel looking at camera and Nancy Hom to his right

Nancy Hom (Pratt graduate, artist writer, graphic designer, community activist in San Franscisco)


Box 1 Folder 9 Photograph of group seated on grass

Seated in the audience is speaker Han-Hua Cheng, representing Asian Political Alliance (at Columbia). Cheng became the highest ranked Asian American AFL-CIO unionist in the U.S.

Mixed in the audience are members of the Chinese Student Society, Students for a Democratic Society, Black Students Union, Ethiopian Students Union and local Balck Panther Party.

Series II: Printed


Box 1 Folder 10 Asian Awareness advertisement in The Prattler, Vol. 32, No. 19, 6 April 1971


Box 1 Folder 11 "Love Comes to Pratt" from The Prattler page 7, Vol. 32, No. 21, 4 May 1971