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COLIN WATANABE was born in the Topaz concentration camp during WWII and grew up in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles. In 1961, he started at UCLA as an undergraduate student in Engineering and later entered the PhD program. He joined the Nisei Bruin Club and Oriental Concern on campus. He became an active voice in the Asian American Movement as a co-founder of Gidra, the main Asian American movement vernacular newspaper of that period.
VIDEO INFORMATION
Interviewer: Karen Umemoto, Carol Mochizuki
Producer: Greg Viloria
Editor: Greg Viloria
Credits: UCLA Asian American Studies Center
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