Wartime politics and the camps: the Dies subcommittee report and a CIO union win
Congress and the public argued over the fate of Japanese Americans in this 8-page issue from late summer 1943. The…
Print Issue: 1943
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August 1943: the American Legion’s campaign and segregation at Tule Lake
The American Legion’s campaign against Japanese Americans ran through this eight-page issue. State Legion conventions in California and Ohio called…
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Segregation, repatriation and the Nisei combat team, August 1943
Segregation and repatriation led the news in this eight-page issue. WRA Director Dillon S. Myer reported that about ninety percent…
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1943: California calls for detention while churches and soldiers speak up
A California assembly interim committee on Japanese problems unanimously urged detention of all persons of Japanese ancestry for the duration…
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1943: Dies Committee claims refuted, Tule Lake named a segregation center
The War Relocation Authority’s answer to the Dies Committee led the news in this eight-page issue. The WRA published material…
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Draft for Japanese Americans and the WRA under fire in 1943
The Senate military affairs committee recommended that Japanese Americans be drafted in the same manner as other residents, and the…
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Dies drops its probe of the WRA and JACL, and segregation is set
The Dies subcommittee’s investigation of the War Relocation Authority and the Japanese American Citizens League ended without evidence for its…
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Myer and Masaoka face the Dies Committee, and an Arizona law falls
Congressional hearings on the War Relocation Authority led this 8-page issue. Larry Tajiri reported that WRA Director Dillon Myer sharply…
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The Dies Committee hearings and the JACL’s reply, July 1943
The Dies Committee’s hearings on the Japanese American Citizens League took up most of this eight-page issue. On the front…
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The Supreme Court curfew ruling and the Dies hearings
Two stories ran side by side in this 8-page issue. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the military curfew on Japanese…
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Defending Japanese Americans against the Dies committee, June 1943
The Dies committee’s hearings in Los Angeles dominated this eight-page issue. On the front page, a delegation of Los Angeles…
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Arizona’s restrictive law, the Dies Committee, and Masaoka’s induction
Mike Masaoka, JACL executive secretary, announced that the JACL would contest the legality of Arizona House Bill No. 187, a…
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Defending relocation: Myer answers the Dies committee in 1943
The relocation of Japanese Americans out of the camps was the main business of this eight-page issue. On the front…
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The Supreme Court hears Yasui and Hirabayashi, and the Dies Committee targets the JACL
Two stories ran side by side in this 8-page issue: A. L. Wirin’s report on his oral argument before the…
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1943: Supreme Court upholds Nisei citizenship; WRA moves to speed resettlement
The Supreme Court’s refusal to review the Native Sons of the Golden West suit, which had sought to strip Japanese…
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The Supreme Court hears the Hirabayashi and Yasui evacuation cases
Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court filled the front page. Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui challenged the evacuation and…