Alice Kasai dies, anti-bias activist

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: January 8, 2007 | Copyright information

Alice Fumiyo Kasai, for many decades an advocate of peace and friendship among peoples, died Jan. 6, 2007, in Salt Lake City.

She was born in Seattle on Sept. 17, 1916, and she and her family later moved to Utah. She graduated from Carbon High School, Price, in 1935, and married Henry Y. Kasai in 1937. They lived in Salt Lake City.

During World War II, Henry Kasai was arrested and sent to an internment camp for Japanese community leaders in the United States. During this 2 1/2 ye...

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