This collection includes flyers, pamphlets, meeting notes, press releases, correspondence, Rafu Shimpo newspaper clippings, posters, and event scripts for the Day of Remembrance events (DOR) organized by the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formally known as the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations. It also includes materials related to Japanese Americans, Japanese Latin Americans, Little Tokyo, incarceration camps, Mexican Americans, and Muslim Americans.

Kozuye Kay Ochi was born and raised in San Diego County, California soon after her parents left the Poston, Arizona incarceration camp in the 1940s. In the 1950s Kay, her parents, and three sisters moved to Chula Vista, California. After getting her Bachelor's in English and a minor in art at California Western University 1968, she attended UCLA to get her teaching credentials. It was during her time in Los Angeles, that Ochi began to become involved in civil liberties and their rallies. The large Japanese American population in Los Angeles lead her to the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formally known as the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations. As a teacher, Ochi became involved with United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) where she served as the chapter's chair.NCRR (Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress) emerged as a grassroots movement in 1980, fighting for redress and reparations for Nikkei (Japanese Americans) incarcerated during World War II. Founded by Japanese Americans from across the country, NCRR was first known as the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations. The non-profit organization worked to bring the community together to seek justice for the thousands of Nikkei deprived of their civil rights during World War II. NCRR played a pivotal role in helping former Nikkei incarcerees to testify at the 1981 hearings before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), a Congress-appointed group charged with conducting an official study of the wartime incarceration of Nikkei. NCRR worked together with other Nikkei organizations, individuals, and Congress members towards enacting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 that granted reparations. They also fought to ensure that redress was implemented and campaigned for those that were denied the reparations.

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