Redress gains labor and Jackson support, and JACL reorganizes its program
Redress led the front page of this March 1984 issue. The AFL-CIO executive council endorsed legislation for compensation to Japanese…
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Redress, Day of Remembrance and the ‘Sanga Moyu’ controversy
Redress ran through this issue of March 2, 1984. California Democrats voted unanimously on Feb. 5 to support compensation for…
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Redress and anti-Asian bigotry: a February 1984 hearing, a camp plaque and a Senate bill
The Pacific Citizen led with a Santa Clara County hearing on anti-Asian bigotry and violence, where JACL’s Ron Wakabayashi and…
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A Day of Remembrance special edition: testimony from the CWRIC hearings
The front page of this Day of Remembrance special edition carried Judge William Marutani’s account of the Commission on Wartime…
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Day of Remembrance plans and the Yasui ruling: redress in early 1984
Redress and the memory of the wartime incarceration (often called internment) filled the front page. Communities across the country planned…
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Redress for Los Angeles city workers, and the push for S 2116
Redress led the front page. The Los Angeles city council’s Finance and Revenue Committee endorsed a measure to pay $5,000…
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Redress, the Yasui case and Asian Americans in the 1984 campaign
Redress ran through much of this twelve-page issue. Minoru Yasui’s petition to vacate his wartime curfew conviction reached federal court,…
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Redress, a Supreme Court ruling on deportation, and Little Tokyo’s centennial
A Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 10 that made it easier for the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport long-term…
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Redress, the Korematsu appeal and a new legislative year
Redress ran through this 32-page issue. The front page reported that the Department of Justice would appeal Judge Marilyn Hall…
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The 1983 holiday issue: Ruth Aiko Sasaki’s ‘The Loom’ and Little Tokyo
The Pacific Citizen’s 129-page holiday issue opened with “The Loom,” Ruth Aiko Sasaki’s short story, the first prize winner of…
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Redress, civil rights and the coram nobis cases, December 1983
Civil rights ran through this December 1983 issue. The front page carried a Supreme Court case on whether labor laws…
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Immigration reform, redress and JACL’s meeting with Prime Minister Nakasone
Immigration reform and redress led the front page. House Speaker Thomas O’Neill said he would allow a vote on an…
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Reagan in Tokyo, the Vincent Chin case, and redress debates in 1983
President Ronald Reagan’s address to the Japanese Diet led the front page, and he singled out Issei Kanaye Nagasawa, known…
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Redress comes to the Senate: the November 25, 1983 issue
Redress was the lead story. Sen. Spark M. Matsunaga introduced S 2116 with 13 colleagues, a bill to carry out…
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Korematsu ruling and the CWRIC backlash: November 1983
The Pacific Citizen led its November 18, 1983 issue with two stories tied to redress. A hearing on the CWRIC…
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Redress hearings ahead, the Vincent Chin indictment, and Grenada
Redress and civil rights ran through the news of November 11, 1983. John Tateishi reported that JACL’s redress bill, HR…
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Grenada, the Civil Rights Commission and redress funding
News of the death of Army Ranger PFC Mark O. Yamane, 20, of Seattle, killed in the fighting on Grenada,…
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Onizuka’s delayed flight and the Korematsu hearing date
The front page carried news of Ellison Onizuka, the Hawaii-born astronaut whose November shuttle mission was scrubbed after eight months…