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Quiz #21

Born November 29, 1926 in Stockton, California. This is Asian American costume designer, writer and activist once said, “From an apolitical innocent I became a traumatized citizen.”

She was fifteen when the Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the evacuation of all persons of Japanese descent. [fill in the blank] and her family were sent to Gila, Arizona, to a camp in the desert. Two years later, she took an entrance exam to attend Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Who is she?