Fort Snelling’s language school, and the fight over Nisei jobs, 1945
The secrecy around the Army’s Military Intelligence Language School at Fort Snelling was lifted in this issue, as Maj. Gen.…
Print Issue: 1945
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V-J Day news: the 442nd leads the parade and evacuees head for the coast
The end of the war ran through the August 25, 1945 issue. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was chosen to…
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Victory over Japan and the plan to close the camps
The end of the war with Japan shaped this eight-page issue, and the first question it asked was what V-J…
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Violence against returning families, and a VFW vote against Nisei veterans
The return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast ran through this issue from August 1945. A federal grand jury…
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Terrorism against returning Japanese Americans, and the Army’s say on the West Coast
A federal grand jury in Sacramento was asked to indict James E. Watson and Claude P. Watson over January 1945…
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Nisei veterans and returning evacuees, July 1945
Violence and prejudice against Japanese Americans returning to the West Coast ran through this eight-page issue. The Los Angeles chapter…
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Boycotts, returnees and the Nisei soldier, July 1945
Prejudice against returning Japanese Americans ran through this eight-page issue. On page one, Seattle florists boycotted flowers grown by George…
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The 442nd’s return home, and the closing of the relocation centers
The Fifth Army announced on July 7 that the 442nd Regimental Combat Team would return to the United States in…
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Resettlement and wounded Nisei veterans, July 1945
Resettlement was the main subject of this eight-page issue. Minidoka led the WRA centers, with 80.1 per cent of its…
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Nisei soldiers and the return to the West Coast, June 1945
Japanese American soldiers and the reception awaiting them at home ran through this eight-page issue. Sid Feder reported on a…
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June 1945: Canada’s segregation plan and the return to the West Coast
Canada’s plan to separate Japanese Canadians who asked for repatriation from those seeking relocation to the East led the front…
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Nisei soldiers come home, and the fight over their return
Japanese American soldiers were at the center of this eight-page issue from June 16, 1945. Men of the 442nd Combat…
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June 1945: closing the camps, and the 442nd’s victories in Italy
Plans to close the camps and the record of the 442nd ran side by side in this eight-page issue. Dillon…
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Nisei under threat in California, and the ILWU’s stand in Stockton
The Stockton dispute led this issue. After warehouse workers refused to work with Nisei, Local 6 of the ILWU moved…
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Nisei soldiers abroad and terror against returning families, May 1945
News of the war and of the return to the West Coast filled this eight-page issue. The Office of War…
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Nisei soldiers in Europe and the violence facing returning families
Two stories ran side by side in this eight-page issue. On the war front, the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion fought…