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Setsuko "Suki" Terada Ports (born Setsuko Terada; December 12, 1934) is a Japanese American community activist from New York City.
Suki Terada Ports | |
|---|---|
| Born | Setsuko Terada December 12, 1934 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Smith College |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Known for | Community activism |
| Spouse(s) |
Horace Gonder Ports, Jr.
(m. 1957; died 1971) |
| Children | 3 |
| Honors | Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays |
Early life
[edit]Setsuko Terada was born in Harlem, a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, on December 12, 1934 to Yoshio (Albert) Terada and Sumiko Takai.[1] Yoshio, born in Hawaii, owned a gift shop in New York City that catered to a Japanese clientele. Sumiko, born in Japan, immigrated to the US as a child with her family.[attribution needed]
She grew up and has lived most of her life in Harlem amidst rising anti-Japanese sentiment.[2] Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Ports’ mother was placed under house arrest until the end of the war. Ports’ mother was required to call the FBI any time she wanted to leave the apartment.
She attended the Horace Mann-Lincoln School (later known as the New Lincoln School) and the High School of Music & Art, and graduated from the New Lincoln School. She later attended Smith College as an education major and graduated in 1956.
After graduation, she taught for a year in Turkey, where she met her husband, Horace Gonder Ports, Jr. Their marriage generated considerable racial hostility from her white in-laws.[attribution needed] On November 29, 1957, the two married at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights.[3] Her husband died in 1971 at the age of 36, leaving her a single mother of three.[attribution needed][4]
Community activism
[edit]- HIV/AIDS activism,
- community,
- Morningside Park (Manhattan)
Outspoken critic in regards to former President Trump's proposed Muslim registry or database[5]
Later life
[edit]Board member of Asian Americans for Equality
Honors
[edit]In 2011, she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays for her activism.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Ports, Setsuko (January 5, 2008). "Transcript of Setsuko (Suki) Terada Ports interview". Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories, Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History (Interview). No. SSC MS 00535. Interviewed by Loretta J. Ross. Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College Special Collections. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
- ^ Gohl, Cody (May 19, 2022). "Suki Ports on the Importance of AAPI History". Food Bank For New York City. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
- ^ "SUKI TERADA IS WED; Married in Riverside Church Here to Horace Ports Jr". The New York Times. November 30, 1957. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
- ^ "Horace Ports Jr". The New York Times. May 4, 1971. p. 50.
- ^ "Japanese-Americans Imprisoned For Ethnicity Speak Out In Defense Of Muslims". HuffPost. December 7, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
- ^ "2015 GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN TO HONOR: Suki Terada Ports". Consulate-General of Japan in New York. February 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Suki Terada Ports at the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York
- “They Call Me Suki” by Grace Evangelista, a short film from the TAAF AAPI Heritage Heroes short film series