User:Coolmato/Suki Terada Ports

Setsuko "Suki" Terada Ports (born Setsuko Terada; December 12, 1934) is a Japanese American community activist from New York City.

Early life
Setsuko Terada was born in Harlem, a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, on December 12, 1934 to Yoshio (Albert) Terada and Sumiko Takai. 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.

She grew up and has lived most of her life in Harlem amidst rising anti-Japanese sentiment. 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. On November 29, 1957, the two married at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights. Her husband died in 1971 at the age of 36, leaving her a single mother of three.

Community activism

 * HIV/AIDS activism,
 * community,
 * Morningside Park (Manhattan)

Outspoken critic in regards to former President Trump's proposed Muslim registry or database

Later life
Board member of Asian Americans for Equality

Honors
In 2011, she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays for her activism.