Janice Munemitsu

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Janice Munemitsu is a third-generation Japanese American Sansei. A native of Orange County, California, Janice worked on the family farm from age five through high school. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and Biola University. Her family name, Munemitsu, means source of light in kanji. She is the author of The Kindness of Color - the story of two families and Mendez v. Westminster, the desegregation of California State Schools. Janice hopes this book will be a source of light and hope, and will inspire us all to cultivate increasing kindness towards one another.

The Women Who Shaped Me and American History

Celebrating Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month! It started out as a week-long celebration in 1982 and grew to a whole week of honoring women in 1987, authorized by the U.S. Congress. Better late than never, in this month-long recognition of the significant impact women have made throughout U.S. history certainly, I want to recognize the many women who made history in the true stor Read more of this blog post »
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Great resource to encourage prayer and ways to actually integrate it in one's life and organizations!
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A perspective from a Chinese American classmate of a Japanese American girl, growing up in Seattle. I had read this years ago, but revisited it as 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the camp's closing.
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