By Kai Naima Williams. Illustrated by Anastasia Magloire Williams.

Kai Naima Williams great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama introduces one of the 20th-centurys most notable freedom fighters, Yuri Kochiyama (1921 2014) to the next generation of young readers, by chronicling the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuris life and influenced her activism. From Yuris incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II to her participation in movements organizing for better schools in Harlem to her close friendship with Malcolm X, Yuri never wavered in her belief in the power of people especially young people to bring about social change. Ages 7-9.

Hardcover: 40 pp.