Nisei families go to court: school segregation, land laws and lost property
Legal fights over the rights of Japanese Americans filled this issue. On the front page, Nisei parents of Takao Aratani…
Print Issue: 1946
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The first Christmas after the camps: resettlement in 1946
Resettlement was the subject of this 44-page holiday issue, the first Christmas since the War Relocation Authority closed its camps.…
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A British medal for a 442nd veteran, and the first postwar relief shipment to Japan
Shigeo Morishige of Denver, a veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, received the British Military Medal for gallantry in…
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Canada’s deportation ruling and a JACL Legal Defense Fund
The Privy Council in London upheld Canada’s orders-in-council for deporting people of Japanese ancestry, and the front page followed what…
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Plans for 1947: JACL action on citizenship and evacuation claims
A national JACL meeting in Salt Lake City, held November 23-24, 1946, set the paper’s front page. Officers and regional…
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Voting rights, the Oyama case and a Nisei story for Broadway, 1946
Civil rights and the work still ahead after the war filled this 8-page issue. Twelve organizations in British Columbia asked…
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After Proposition 15: Hawaii’s 1946 elections and the land law fight
Two election results shaped this eight-page issue. In Hawaii, thirteen candidates of Japanese ancestry won territorial and county offices on…
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California voters defeat Proposition 15, the Alien Land Law measure
Californians went to the polls and rejected Proposition 15, the proposal to write Alien Land Law amendments into the state…
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The Oyama ruling and the fight over California’s Alien Land Law
The California Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the state’s Alien Land Law in the Oyama case led this issue. Four…
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The fight over Proposition 15 and the Alien Land Law
Proposition 15 and California’s Alien Land Law ran through most of this eight-page issue. Opposition grew across the state: the…
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The fight against Proposition 15, the Alien Land Law measure
Proposition 15 and the California Alien Land Law amendments filled this eight-page issue. The state CIO Political Action Committee announced…
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Crystal City, Proposition 15 and the fight over the Alien Land Law
The Northern California ACLU reported that the government was still holding 131 people of Japanese ancestry at Crystal City, Texas,…
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Fighting Proposition 15 and the fishing ban, October 1946
Proposition 15 ran through the news of this 8-page issue. Mike Masaoka warned a Venice JACL meeting that the measure…
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Proposition 15 and the unfinished work after the camps closed, 1946
California’s Proposition 15 ran through this eight-page issue. The measure would validate amendments to the state’s Alien Land Law, and…
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Nisei soldiers, housing fights and the Alien Land Act in 1946
Japanese Americans in the fall of 1946 were still fighting for a place in postwar life, and this eight-page issue…
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Nisei jobs, alien land law fights and restrictive covenants in 1946
The postwar fight over jobs, land and housing ran through this 8-page issue. The State Personnel Board did not contest…