Return to the West Coast: the exclusion order lifted, December 1944
The Army’s revocation of the exclusion order, and the reaction to it, ran through this 8-page issue. Interior Secretary Ickes…
Print Issue: 1944
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The end of the West Coast exclusion orders, December 1944
The War Department’s revocation of the exclusion orders against Japanese Americans on the Pacific Coast, effective January 2, was the…
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Hood River, the AFL and the fight over Nisei return
Debate over the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast ran through this four-page issue. The Hood River American…
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Hood River erases 16 Nisei soldiers’ names from a war memorial
The Hood River, Oregon, American Legion post removed the names of 16 Japanese American soldiers from its county war memorial,…
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Casualties in France and the debate over Japanese Americans returning west
News from the European front led this eight-page issue. Reports told of eight Japanese American soldiers killed and 46 wounded…
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Roosevelt’s praise for Nisei soldiers and a Nisei’s return to California
President Roosevelt’s words about Japanese American soldiers led this four-page issue. At his November 21 press conference he praised the…
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Nisei casualties in France and the debate over returning to California
Two subjects ran side by side through this eight-page issue: the war in France and the question of Japanese Americans…
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Nisei soldiers in France and the Korematsu and Endo cases
Japanese American soldiers in France were the main news of this eight-page issue. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team led the…
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Nisei soldiers in Italy and France, and the debate over a return to the West Coast
The Nisei at war filled this eight-page issue. A front-page report said a sergeant had died in action in France,…
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Lifting martial law in Hawaii, and the 442nd’s combat badges
News from the war fronts and the home front shared the pages of this eight-page issue. The 442nd Regimental Combat…
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Nisei soldiers at war and the Supreme Court hearings on Endo and Korematsu
Japanese American soldiers and the fight over their families’ rights filled the eight pages of this October 1944 issue. The…
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The JACL brief to the Supreme Court in the Korematsu case
The JACL’s 200-page brief in the Supreme Court case of Fred Korematsu led the news. Signed by Saburo Kido and…
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Nisei in combat, and the 1944 fight over return to the West Coast
Japanese American soldiers and the debate over the return of incarcerees filled this eight-page issue. The front page carried the…
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Fall 1944: casualty lists, the coast return debate and a Nisei student in Pasadena
Whether Japanese Americans would be allowed back to the West Coast ran through this eight-page issue. WRA Director Dillon Myer…
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Nisei soldiers in Italy and the debate over their return, 1944
The war record of Japanese American soldiers ran through this eight-page issue. Casualty lists named the dead, wounded and missing…
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Nisei soldiers in Italy and the fight to return to the West Coast
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy filled the front page and much of the issue. A wounded corporal told…