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Steven Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (, May 9, 1943 – May 10, 2000) was a Japanese-American author and civil rights, anti-war, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS activist. Born in Wyoming at the World War II–era Japanese American internment camp known as Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Kuromiya became an aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War during the 1960s. One of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front in Philadelphia, Kuromiya also founded the Critical Path Project and its newsletter. He was also the editor of ACT UP's Standard of Care, the first management of HIV/AIDS, medical treatment and cultural competence in healthcare, cultural competency guidelines produced for people living with HIV by people living with HIV/AIDS. Family and early life Kiyoshi Kuromiya was born on May 9, 1943, in Wyoming at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain Internment Camp, where his family had been relocated and detained while living Monrovia, Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain (Wyoming), Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody, Wyoming, Cody and Powell, Wyoming, Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities (including their homes, businesses, and college residencies) in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt (after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, upon the recommendation of Lieutenant general (United States), Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt). This site was managed before the war by the federal Bureau of Reclamation as the would-be site of a major irrigation project. Construction of the camp's 650 military-style barracks and surrounding guard towers began in June 1942. The camp opened August 11, when the first Japanese Americans were shipped in by train from the internment program' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
