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When the Kochiyama family moved to Harlem in 1960, Yuri and Bill joined the Harlem Parents Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). This began her commitment to community organizing and activism for the Harlem community; the neighborhood that she would call home for over 30 years. Kochiyama began holding weekly open houses for activists in the family’s apartment; their home began to be referred to as the \u201cGrand Central Station\u201d or the \u201cRevolutionary Salon”.<\/p>\n
In October of 1963, Kochiyama met Malcolm X at a Brooklyn courthouse following her arrest after protesting discriminatory hiring practices in construction jobs. After their meeting, they kept in touch via letters and postcards discussing their ideologies and views. Kochiyama also joined Malcolm X\u2019s pan-Africanist Organization of Afro-American Unity. The two remained close until Malcolm X\u2019s assisination on February 21, 1965 and though their friendship was short; Kochiyama credited the radicalization of her activism to his influence.<\/p>\n
In the mid-1960\u2019s Yuri joined the Revolutionary Action Movement, a Black nationalist and liberation organization rooted in the philosophy of Maoism and attempted to construct an ideology based on the teachings of Malcolm X, Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong. In 1968, she was one of the few non-Black activists invited to join the Republic of New Africa (RNA) which advocated for a separate Black Nation in the Southern United States. After Yuri joined the RNA she decided to drop what she referred to as her \u201cslave name\u201d Mary and used only the name Yuri thereafter.<\/p>\n
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The only visit Malcolm X ever had to the Kochiyama home was to meet three reporters from the Hiroshima\/Nagasaki World Peace Study Mission.<\/p>\n
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Kitchen table at the Kochiyama home. Here you can see various protest and conference flyers, pens, letters addressed to friends and political prisoners across the nation, envelopes and newspaper clippings.<\/p>\n
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