Evacuation claims hearings and discrimination at a Lake Tahoe resort
Evacuation claims hearings were the main business of this eight-page issue. Hearings on the Lane-Hillings bill were set for San…
Print Issue: 1955
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JACL’s 25th anniversary, praised in Congress and marked with a flag
JACL’s 25th anniversary ran through this issue. Rep. Walter H. Judd praised the Japanese American Citizens League in the Congressional…
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Sammy Lee’s housing fight and the push against discrimination
Olympic diving champion Major Sammy Lee of the U.S. Army was denied the chance to buy a home in Garden…
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Interracial marriage in Hawaii, and a decade after the war
Interracial marriage in Hawaii led the front page of this eight-page issue. Larry Nakatsuka wrote about an anonymous letter criticizing…
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Congress adjourns: Hawaii lands, claims bills and a Chinese citizenship claim
Congress and its unfinished business shaped this eight-page issue. Mike Masaoka judged the first session of the 84th Congress among…
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Issei pensions and evacuation claims in the news, August 1955
Legislation affecting the Issei and former incarcerees ran through the front page. State officials told JACL regional director Tats Kushida…
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Go for Broke! and the Refugee Relief Act, July 29, 1955
Go for Broke!, the film about the 442nd Combat Team, opened the issue. Larry Tajiri wrote about meeting MGM production…
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1955: Issei pensions, lump-sum payment and vested property
Money and rights ran through this eight-page issue. California’s new old age assistance law opened pensions to non-citizen Issei, and…
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Issei old age assistance, wartime property claims and refugee relief
Legislation affecting Japanese Americans filled this eight-page issue. California Governor Knight signed Assembly Bill 2255, the JACL-sponsored measure granting old…
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Evacuation claims and a new Hillings Bill: July 1955
The fight over evacuation claims ran through this eight-page issue. The JACL Washington office answered the Justice Department’s objections to…
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The right to travel, and a columnist who went fishing
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on passports was the main news of this eight-page issue. The court held…
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A New York Times survey of Nisei status, and a pension bill for Issei
A New York Times survey of interracial relations in the Far West was the subject of Larry Tajiri’s front-page Vagaries…
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Immigration, Issei old age aid and a Nebraska editor, June 1955
Immigration questions ran through this eight-page issue. The Immigration and Naturalization Service reinstated pre-examination procedures that may help certain aliens…
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Remembering Dr. Randolph Sakada, past national JACL president
The death of Dr. Randolph M. Sakada of Chicago, immediate past national JACL president, shaped much of this eight-page issue.…
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Issei naturalization and Nisei war dead, spring 1955
Issei citizenship ran through much of this 8-page issue. The Washington JACL office reported that 7,424 Issei were naturalized in…
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Dual nationality, Issei citizenship and Memorial Day 1955
Questions of citizenship ran through this eight-page issue. JACL Washington representative Mike Masaoka stated that Nisei with dual nationality living…