Kai Naima Williams - The Bridges Yuri Built-Signed
$19.99
Kai Naima Williams - The Bridges Yuri Built-Signed
$19.99
* Signed bookplate * Join Kai Naima Williams on talkshoplive to talk about her book, The Bridges Yuri Built : How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements. Debut children's picture book author Kai Naima Williams -- great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama -- intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri's life and influenced her activism. From Yuri's incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II to her participation in movements organizing for better schools in Harlem to her close friendship with Malcolm X, Yuri never wavered in her belief in the power of the people -- especially young people -- to bring about social change.