The Tokyo Rose treason trial and a ruling on Tule Lake
Two court stories led this eight-page issue. Marion Tajiri reported from San Francisco on the treason trial of Iva Toguri…
Print Issue: 1949
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Defending Hawaii’s Japanese Americans, and the Bendetsen fight
The JACL Anti-Discrimination Committee answered a charge made at a temperance convention in Philadelphia. Speaker H. Cecil Heath tied drunkenness…
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A new test of California’s alien land law and the Tokyo Rose trial
A new court challenge to California’s alien land law led the August 20, 1949 issue. The Civil Rights Defense Union…
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1949: Issei citizenship, the Tokyo Rose trial and evacuee claims
Legislation for Issei citizenship rights led this 8-page issue. The JACL national board, meeting in Los Angeles on August 6…
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Nisei Week returns, and the Tokyo Rose trial reaches its fifth week
Two stories from Los Angeles and San Francisco ran alongside news of the Judd bill in this eight-page issue. Marion…
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Honoring the 442nd in Honolulu, and the push on evacuation claims
Col. Charles W. Pence, former commander of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was in Honolulu for ceremonies honoring Nisei veterans,…
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The Judd bill hearings and the ‘Tokyo Rose’ trial
Two stories ran side by side in this 8-page issue. One was the Senate subcommittee hearing on the Judd bill…
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Takeshi Yoshihara enters Annapolis, and the Tokyo Rose trial opens
Takeshi Yoshihara, 18, of Renton, Wash., became the first Nisei to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and…
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The Tokyo Rose trial and the fight for naturalization, 1949
Two stories ran side by side in this issue: the trial of Iva Toguri d’Aquino, known as Tokyo Rose, and…
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Americans Betrayed, the Tokyo Rose trial and Issei citizenship bills
Morton Grodzins’ book Americans Betrayed, on how pressure groups produced the mass removal of Japanese Americans, ran through the pages…
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Evacuee claims, civil rights bills and the Tokyo Rose trial
Evacuee claims and the push for civil rights law ran through this eight-page issue. Los Angeles JACL chapters offered free…
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1949: evacuation claims, the Judd Bill and a JACL convention in New York
Evacuation claims and the Judd Bill ran through much of this eight-page issue. The Senate cut funds elsewhere in the…
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Naturalization for Issei and evacuation claims, June 1949
Citizenship for the Issei was the main news of the June 11, 1949 issue. The House unanimously approved the Walter…
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Support for the Judd bill, and Memorial Day for Nisei war dead
The Judd bill, which would open citizenship to Issei, was the lead story of this eight-page issue. Colorado Gov. Lee…
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Fair employment, the Judd bill and Memorial Day, 1949
The fight against discrimination ran through this issue. A California Assembly committee killed the fair employment practices bill sponsored by…
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Issei citizenship, Amache’s cemetery and the “Tokyo Rose” trial
Citizenship for Issei ran through the 8-page issue of May 21, 1949. Mike Masaoka told a Honolulu audience that Hawaii’s…