“I showed people what I could do.”~Mitsuye Endo, Interview, 1976 Born in Sacramento, California, Mitsuye Endo was the second of four children of immigrants from Japan. After graduating from high school, she became a secretery with the California…

“We were way up. All we had to worry about were the shells coming. They couldn’t come over the mountains, so when they hit one side, the rocks would come flying onto our side. That’s the only thing we had to worry about... Staying up in the mountains…