Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress 10th anniversary poster, August 1989 protest poster, and Stand Up for Justice poster, August 5, 1989; 1990; 2004

Kay Ochi Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (1982-2020) contains 5.62 linear feet of newspaper clippings, flyers, press releases, publications, correspondence, posters, meeting notes, agendas, scripts, posters, and other material related to the organization, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formally known as National Coalition for Redress and Reparations. Most of the material is regarding the annual Day of Remembrance (DOR) organized by one of the NCRR’s co-chairs, Kay Ochi. The DOR was created to educate the public about the 1942 Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the forced removal and incarceration of nearly 120, 000 Japanese Americans in World War II. It also includes materials related to Japanese Americans, Japanese Latin Americans, Little Tokyo, incarceration camps, Mexican Americans, and Muslim Americans. Since Ochi was part of the committee that organized the DOR, much of the collection consists of event scripts, email correspondence mostly between other committee members and Ochi, and other material related to the organization and Day of Remembrance events.