Fumiko Hayashida, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American activist
Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1911
Date of Death: 02-Nov-2014
Profession: activist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Fumiko Hayashida
- Fumiko Hayashida (January 21, 1911 – November 2, 2014) was an American activist, originally from Bainbridge Island, Washington, who became one of the first Japanese Americans to be interned in March 1942.
- Hayashida, who was 31 years old at the time, was the subject of a Seattle Post-Intelligencer photograph which shows her holding her sleeping 10-month-old daughter, Natalie, while waiting to board a ferry from Bainbridge Island to the mainland with other Japanese American internees.
- The photo became an iconic image of the plight of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II.
- However, the identity of the woman in the photograph remained unknown for decades.
- She was known only as "Mystery Girl" or "Mystery Lady" until the 1990s, when researchers at the Smithsonian Institution uncovered her identity and tracked her down. Hayashida was interned for a year at Manzanar before being moved to the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho to be closer to relatives and friends.In 2006, Hayashida testified in favor of a proposed memorial for Japanese American internees on Bainbridge Island before a U.S.
- congressional committee.
- The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial was opened in 2011.
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