Full title:Yuriko Amemiya is studying interpretive dancing on a scholarship at the famed Martha Graham School in New York. Back in her home in Hollywood, California, she started dancing when she was six. After the evacuation of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, Yuriko went to the Gila River Relocation Center, where she taught dancing to center children. An accomplished seamstress, she earns her way in New York by working mornings for a Manhattan dress manufacturer. Her parents still reside at Gila.<lb /> Photographer: Parker, Tom<lb /> New York, New York. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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