Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi is also the only woman of the four challengers to be excluded from the nation’s highest civilian honor. Her posthumous nomination for the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, born to Japanese immigrant parents in 1920, was only 22 when she challenged the incarceration of herself and 120,000 Japanese Americans — an act that made its way all the ...

When Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi was just 22 years old, she courageously challenged the incarceration of herself and her fellow Japanese American citizens in concentration camps during World War II.

Mitsuye Endo was born on May 10, 1920, in Sacramento, the second of four children of Jinshiro and Shima ... Endo and Tsutsumi moved to Chicago, where they married on Nov. 22, 1946.

Mitsuye Endo, a 22-year-old typist with the Department of Motor Vehicles, dutifully answered the questions, ... Endo and Tsutsumi moved to Chicago, where they married on Nov. 22, 1946.

And she did it for herself and her family and all the Japanese Americans who were incarcerated," Mitsuye Endo's son, Wayne Tsutsumi said, in an interview from his home in Chicago.

Mitsuye “Mitzi” Tsutsumi, nee Endo, of LaGrange Highland. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth; loving mother of Wayne (Barbara), Wendy (late Alan) Weiner and Terry (Paul) DeRivera; devoted ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi is also the only woman of the four challengers to be excluded from the nation’s highest civilian honor. Her posthumous nomination for the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, born to Japanese immigrant parents in 1920, was only 22 when she challenged the incarceration of herself and 120,000 Japanese Americans — an act that made its way all the ...

Mitsuye ''Mitzi'' Tsutsumi, nee Endo, of LaGrange Highland. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth; loving mother of Wayne (Barbara), Wendy (l ...