Pat Iiyama

AKA: Patti Iiyama
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Full name:Patricia Iiyama
Date of birth:1945
Age:81
Gender:Female
Era:1960s
State:California
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Pat Iiyama

Biography

Patricia “Patti” Iiyama was a civil-rights activist and member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement executive committee. Following the Sproul Hall sit-in, she refused probation and experienced a thirty-day term at Santa Rita.

Photo credit

Patricia (Patti) Iiyama at the Women for Peace table, December 1964. Photograph by Ron Hecker, reproduced in Barbara Toby Stack's Free Speech Movement archive. Rectangular crop; no AI editing.

Case

Charges: Trespassing and resisting arrest in the Sproul Hall sit-in prosecution
Arrested: December 1964
Sentenced: 1965
Sentence: Convicted in summer 1965 after the December 1964 sit-in. She refused probation and received a thirty-day Santa Rita term; her later account describes the confinement. The exact dates she entered and left jail remain unresolved and are not equated with her conviction date.

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