Veteran of World War II
A member of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team made up almost entirely of Japanese American soldiers.
Husband of
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama, well known civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X.
William met his wife Yuri at a USO center for the soldiers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which she was helping to run. Married in 1946, they moved into a housing project behind Lincoln Center in New York City and later relocated to an apartment in Harlem, their door always open to activists of the Left. William and Yuri were blessed with six children.
Death
Social Security Death Index
Name: William M. Kochiyama
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 10 May 1921
Died: 25 Oct 1993
SSN issued: California (1952)
WIFE
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama (1921-2014), Civil Rights Activist
Yuri is seen in a famous Life Magazine picture (5 Mar 1965, p 26) cradling Malcolm X's head in her lap, minutes after he was shot down by gunmen.
Yuri, also known as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, was born in San Pedro, California on May 19, 1921 to parents Seiichi Nakahara & Tsuyako Sawaguchi. Her father owned a fish and marine supply business and was prominent in the Japanese American community. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, her father, wrongly accused of espionage, was arrested and died weeks later in prison. Yuri and the rest of the family were sent to an internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas. A lifelong champion of civil rights causes, in the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988.
California Birth Index
Name: Yuri Nakahara
Birth: 19 May 1921 at Los Angeles Co.
Gender: Female
Mother's Maiden Name: Sawaguchi
A member of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team made up almost entirely of Japanese American soldiers.
Husband of
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama, well known civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X.
William met his wife Yuri at a USO center for the soldiers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which she was helping to run. Married in 1946, they moved into a housing project behind Lincoln Center in New York City and later relocated to an apartment in Harlem, their door always open to activists of the Left. William and Yuri were blessed with six children.
Death
Social Security Death Index
Name: William M. Kochiyama
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 10 May 1921
Died: 25 Oct 1993
SSN issued: California (1952)
WIFE
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama (1921-2014), Civil Rights Activist
Yuri is seen in a famous Life Magazine picture (5 Mar 1965, p 26) cradling Malcolm X's head in her lap, minutes after he was shot down by gunmen.
Yuri, also known as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, was born in San Pedro, California on May 19, 1921 to parents Seiichi Nakahara & Tsuyako Sawaguchi. Her father owned a fish and marine supply business and was prominent in the Japanese American community. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, her father, wrongly accused of espionage, was arrested and died weeks later in prison. Yuri and the rest of the family were sent to an internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas. A lifelong champion of civil rights causes, in the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988.
California Birth Index
Name: Yuri Nakahara
Birth: 19 May 1921 at Los Angeles Co.
Gender: Female
Mother's Maiden Name: Sawaguchi
Veteran of World War II
A member of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team made up almost entirely of Japanese American soldiers.
Husband of
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama, well known civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X.
William met his wife Yuri at a USO center for the soldiers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which she was helping to run. Married in 1946, they moved into a housing project behind Lincoln Center in New York City and later relocated to an apartment in Harlem, their door always open to activists of the Left. William and Yuri were blessed with six children.
Death
Social Security Death Index
Name: William M. Kochiyama
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 10 May 1921
Died: 25 Oct 1993
SSN issued: California (1952)
WIFE
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama (1921-2014), Civil Rights Activist
Yuri is seen in a famous Life Magazine picture (5 Mar 1965, p 26) cradling Malcolm X's head in her lap, minutes after he was shot down by gunmen.
Yuri, also known as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, was born in San Pedro, California on May 19, 1921 to parents Seiichi Nakahara & Tsuyako Sawaguchi. Her father owned a fish and marine supply business and was prominent in the Japanese American community. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, her father, wrongly accused of espionage, was arrested and died weeks later in prison. Yuri and the rest of the family were sent to an internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas. A lifelong champion of civil rights causes, in the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988.
California Birth Index
Name: Yuri Nakahara
Birth: 19 May 1921 at Los Angeles Co.
Gender: Female
Mother's Maiden Name: Sawaguchi
A member of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team made up almost entirely of Japanese American soldiers.
Husband of
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama, well known civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X.
William met his wife Yuri at a USO center for the soldiers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which she was helping to run. Married in 1946, they moved into a housing project behind Lincoln Center in New York City and later relocated to an apartment in Harlem, their door always open to activists of the Left. William and Yuri were blessed with six children.
Death
Social Security Death Index
Name: William M. Kochiyama
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 10 May 1921
Died: 25 Oct 1993
SSN issued: California (1952)
WIFE
Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama (1921-2014), Civil Rights Activist
Yuri is seen in a famous Life Magazine picture (5 Mar 1965, p 26) cradling Malcolm X's head in her lap, minutes after he was shot down by gunmen.
Yuri, also known as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, was born in San Pedro, California on May 19, 1921 to parents Seiichi Nakahara & Tsuyako Sawaguchi. Her father owned a fish and marine supply business and was prominent in the Japanese American community. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, her father, wrongly accused of espionage, was arrested and died weeks later in prison. Yuri and the rest of the family were sent to an internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas. A lifelong champion of civil rights causes, in the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988.
California Birth Index
Name: Yuri Nakahara
Birth: 19 May 1921 at Los Angeles Co.
Gender: Female
Mother's Maiden Name: Sawaguchi
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