later transferred to Jerome, Arkansas to visit her father before his death. Herzig-Yoshinaga eventually divorced her husband after he was drafted into the military for World War II. Before the war's end, she also spent time in the Rohwer War Relocation Center which, like Jerome Relocation Center, is also located in Arkansas. After the war, she received $25, left the incarceration centers, and settled in New York City with her four siblings and her mother. She remarried and had two more children before divorcing again, and took a job as a clerical worker to support her family. Activism In the 1960s, Herzig-Yoshinaga became involved with Asian Americans for Action, a civil rights organization composed mostly of Nisei women that engaged in activism protesting the Vietnam War and nuclear research. She also joined the staff of Jazzmobile, a non-profit organization dedicated to education through jazz music based in Harlem, which helped deepen her consciousness around race and racism in the United States. In 1978, she married former Army paratrooper John "Jack" Herzig and moved to Washington, D.C. He had fought against the Japanese during World War II and until marrying Herzig-Yoshinaga, knew very little about the Japanese American incarceration. At the prompting of her friend, author Michi Weglyn, Herzig-Yoshinaga began looking into the records of the government agencies responsible for Japanese American incarceration that had recently been made available to the public in the National Archives. Often putting in fifty- or sixty-hour weeks, she worked to retrieve and catalog thousands of significant documents over the next several years. She would bring her purse, a lunch, and her own copy machine, and kept a detailed filing system to organize the thousands of documents she accumulated and worked with. Herzig-Yoshinaga joined the National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) in 1980 (the same year the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was created) and contributed her archival research to NCJAR's class-action lawsuit seeking reparations from the government. The following year, in 1981, Herzig-Yoshinaga was hired by the CWRIC as its lead researcher, and she soon after unearthed one of the most significant pieces of evidence in the case for redress. Lieut. Gen. John L. De Witt, who had overseen the evacuation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during the war, had written a "Final Report on Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast." Herzig-Yoshinaga found the single remaining copy of an earlier