Hawaii’s statehood bid and the Issei citizenship question
Hawaii’s bid for statehood led the news on January 26, 1946. A House Territories subcommittee, back from 20 days of…
Print Issue: 1946
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Hawaii statehood hearings and the return from camp, January 1946
Testimony in Hawaii led the issue. FBI official Robert Shivers told a congressional committee that hundreds of Nisei had assisted…
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January 1946: Tule Lake renunciants, Hawaii statehood and Nisei soldiers
Hearings for Tule Lake residents who renounced their citizenship but wished to remain in the U.S. led the front page…
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Treatment of 442nd veterans and the return from the camps, 1946
The treatment of Nisei combat veterans led the first issue of 1946. The JACL protested what it called mistreatment of…