Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
American civil rights activist
Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1925
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, United States
Date of Death: 18-Jul-2018
Profession: civil rights advocate
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
- Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (August 5, 1925 – July 18, 2018) was an American political activist who played a major role in the Japanese American redress movement.
- She was the lead researcher of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, a bipartisan federal committee appointed by Congress in 1980 to review the causes and effects of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
- Herzig-Yoshinaga, who was confined in the Manzanar, California and Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas concentration camps as a young woman, uncovered government documents that debunked the wartime administration's claims of "military necessity" and helped compile the CWRIC's final report, Personal Justice Denied, which led to the issuance of a formal apology and reparations for former camp inmates.
- She also contributed pivotal evidence and testimony to the Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Yasui coram nobis cases.
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