President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Citizens Medal posthumously to Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi this evening at the White House. Her son Wayne Tsutsumi accepted on his mother’s behalf.

President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition of a quiet hero whose name should echo in American history. Endo’s courage ...

Mitsuye Endo is a loyal U.S. citizen, born 24 years ago in Sacramento. Her eyes happen to slant upward because her ancestors were Japanese. In 1942, when the U.S. Army uprooted 110,000 people of ...

and Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, who was held with other Japanese Americans during World War II and challenged the detention. The Presidential Citizens Medal was created by President Richard Nixon in ...

and Young" Louis Lorenzo Redding, a civil rights lawyer and advocate Collins Seitz, who served as a Delaware state judge Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, who was held with other Japanese Americans during ...

President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition of a quiet hero whose name should echo in American history.