About Lincoln Kanai
Lived 1908 – 1982 (aged 73–74). Lincoln Kanai was a social worker.
Lincoln Seiichi Kanai (December 5, 1908 – February 1982) was a social worker who was one of several Japanese Americans to bring a legal challenge against the exclusion of people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II.
Biography Kanai was born December 5, 1908, in the small town of Koloa in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1930, and in 1935, after his return from an extended trip to Japan, he began working for the Lihue, Kauai YMCA. In 1937, Kanai moved to California to take a job at San Francisco's Buchanan Street YMCA, where he remained until the war.
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Japanese American social worker
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Lincoln Kanai was born on 5 December 1908 in Koloa.
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Lincoln Kanai died in 1982.
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