Mary Yamashiro Otani (Japanese: メアリー山城大谷 Mearī Yamashiro Ōtani) (July 5, 1923 in Berkeley, California – August 22, 2005) was a Richmond, California community activist. She was a student at UC Berkeley when she was forcibly removed to an internment center for Japanese Americans, first living with her family at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno and later at an isolated desert camp in Topaz, Utah. Later a Quaker group persuaded the authorities to allow college-age students to continue their studies at East Coast schools. Yamashiro then attend Boston University where she met her husband Bill.
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5 July 1923
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22 August 2005 (aged 82)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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