Lillian Kimura

Lillian Kimura was the first female National President of the Japanese American Citizens League. A California native, she was interned at Manzanar during World War II. She later earned degrees from the University of Illinois, worked for the YWCA in Chicago, and became the first female president of Chicago’s Japanese American Service Committee. She worked on the Redress Movement, which provided reparations and an apology for Japanese Americans interned during WWII, and is also involved with the American Jewish Committee and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.