Jimmy Doi was born in California in 1925. He and his four older siblings were Nisei, first generation Americans born to parents who emigrated from Japan and ran a tomato farm in Oxnard, California. When Doi’s parents decided to return to Japan in…

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 Department of Employment, but, along with all other Japanese American…

Born in Vietnam in 1965, Huey Nguyenhuu's family suffered during the Vietnam war. His father was a minister of labor under the Republic of Vietnam and a skilled oil painter, encouraging his son's artistic ability. When the North Vietnamese…

Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1986. Her father, Franklin Duckworth, was stationed in Thailand during his service in the Vietnam War, and he stayed to marry Lamai Sompompairin a woman of Thai-Chinese descent. Tammy, who is a member…