A call to end the Senate filibuster, and a year’s end in 1958
JACL’s push to amend Senate Rule 22 was the main subject of this eight-page issue from the end of 1958.…
Print Issue: 1958
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The 1958 holiday issue: JACL and U.S.-Japan relations
JACL’s role in U.S.-Japan relations ran through the 76-page holiday issue of 1958. National President Shig Wakamatsu argued for a…
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Housing bias, a royal engagement and a Nevada marriage ruling
Civil rights ran through the front page of this eight-page issue. A Negro real estate broker told the Colorado Advisory…
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Final evacuation claims, human rights day and Bill Hosokawa’s honor
The last awards under the Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 led the news. The Japanese Claims Section told the JACL…
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Thanksgiving 1958: the final evacuation claims award
The Justice Department closed the evacuation claims program on November 10, 1958, when the Attorney General signed the final award,…
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Anti-Japanese films on TV and a Nobel Prize for Father Pire
A Los Angeles Examiner columnist took up the JACL campaign against anti-Japanese wartime films on local television. Vincent X. Flaherty…
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Closing the evacuation claims, and an offer to new readers
The last of the Japanese evacuation claims was settled in this issue. Attorney General William Rogers signed the final compromise…
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The 1958 elections and Nisei Democrats cheering California’s sweep
The November 1958 elections filled the front page of this eight-page issue. An editorial on the Democratic landslide argued that…
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Community news and the 1958 election: an eight-page issue
Community news from around the country filled this eight-page issue. The front page reported that Tokichi Matsuoka was re-elected president…
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JACL’s purpose and the Fresno chapter’s 35th anniversary
JACL’s basic purpose was the subject of the cover commentary, as president Shig Wakamatsu argued the organization should return to…
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Alien land laws, Toronto housing bias and a Nisei architect
Alien land laws led this eight-page issue. George Sugai’s front-page column told how Idaho repealed its law through the work…
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The Pacific Citizen membership plan, and Earl Warren’s change of heart
The question of how every JACL member family could receive the Pacific Citizen was still unsettled after the national convention…
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Convention thoughts, the Little Rock ruling and the Alien Land Law
The Salt Lake City National Convention was the main subject of this eight-page issue. A front-page piece from the Board…
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Fresno’s 35th anniversary, Little Rock and a Nisei vice-consul
Little Rock and the nation’s schools drew comment in this 8-page issue. An editorial, “Youth in the South,” argued that…
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Little Rock, Notting Hill and a JACL office on the move
Racial conflict at home and abroad led this eight-page issue. An editorial compared the unrest in Notting Hill, England, with…
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After the 15th National JACL Convention: youth, housing bias and claims checks
The 15th Biennial National JACL Convention was still fresh when this eight-page issue went to press. Shig Wakamatsu’s President’s Corner…