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''[[AsianWeek]]'' columnist Phil Tajitsu Nash stated that when hearing the album or Yellow Pearl perform live, "From Boston to Chicago to San Francisco to Honolulu, Asian-derived people who had been classified in the Census as "Other" suddenly realized that they had an identity, a history, and a place at the table."<ref>[http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0107-26.htm Phil Nash, Remembering Chris Iijima] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820121334/http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0107-26.htm|date=August 20, 2007}}</ref> Iijima sang a song from the album on the [[Mike Douglas Show]], co-hosted with [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] on February 15, 1972.<ref>Leila Fujimori, [http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/01/17/news/story08.html "UH law professor was Asian-American activist"], ''Honolulu Star Bulletin'', January 17, 2006.</ref>
Iijima was a founder of [[Asian Americans for Action]], one of the first Asian American-focused civil rights organizations of the 1960s.<ref> / Andrew Hsiao, [http://www.villagevoice.com/1998-06-23/news/100-years-of-hell-raising "100 Years of Hell-Raising: The Hidden History of Asian American Activism in New York City"], ''[[The Village Voice]]'', June 23, 1989.</ref> Iijima later became a law professor and wrote about discrimination against Asian Americans, [[Native Hawaiians]] and members of other racial groups.{{cn|date=July 2018}}
A documentary on Iijima's life, ''A Song for Ourselves'', by [[Tadashi Nakamura (filmmaker)|Tadashi Nakamura]] premiered on February 28, 2009 in Los Angeles.<ref>[http://asongforourselves.blogspot.com/ Official Website for film ''A Song for Ourselves'']</ref> The Chris Iijima Fund is an endowed fund supporting cultural and economic diversity at the Manhattan Country School where Iijima taught for ten years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alumni.manhattancountryschool.org/donations|title=Donation Funds - Manhattan Country School|accessdate=2009-01-14|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305114408/http://alumni.manhattancountryschool.org/donations|archivedate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
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[[Category:20th-century American musicians]]
[[Category:American jurists of Japanese descent]]
[[Category:20th-century American folk musicians]]
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