The 1959 holiday issue: Hawaii statehood and JACL’s next ten years
Hawaii’s new place as a state opened the 72-page holiday issue of 1959. Lawrence Nakatsuka examined its role as a…
Print Issue: 1959
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Local JACL news and a push to repeal the Alien Land Law
Chapter life filled this eight-page weekly. A front-page editorial by the P.C. staff, “Toying with the P-Bomb,” criticized the politics…
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Plans for a national testimonial to Dr. Thomas T. Yatabe
A national testimonial for Dr. Thomas T. Yatabe, set for the 1960 national convention in Sacramento, led this eight-page issue.…
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1000 Club milestone and a Boy Scout fund drive
The JACL 1000 Club was the lead story of this 8-page issue. Ernest Takaki of Delano became the first Life…
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Thanksgiving 1959: gratitude, a cartoon protest and typhoon relief
A Thanksgiving editorial opened this issue, asking readers to be more thankful and recalling how the holiday began. Elsewhere on…
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A new California job law and complaints about farm workers from Japan
A new California FEPC law was the subject of the front-page editorial, which argued that a statute meant to end…
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Planning JACL’s next decade, 1960-70, and the Sacramento convention
Planning for the coming decade ran through this eight-page issue. National President Shig Wakamatsu announced a 1960-70 Planning Commission and…
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Planning for 1960 and the Holiday Issue: JACL chapter news, 1959
Two projects shaped the editor’s column in this eight-page issue: the JACL 1960-70 Planning Commission and the Pacific Citizen’s Holiday…
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Orange County JACL at 25 and a decade of planning ahead
Orange County JACL’s 25th anniversary celebration in Tustin led the news. Frank Chuman, a main speaker, urged the chapter to…
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Relief for Nagoya and a Boy Scout from Japan
Help for typhoon victims in Japan and a JACL fund for a Japanese Boy Scout filled the front page. After…
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Hawaii statehood, Nisei judges and JACL’s future, October 1959
Hawaii’s new statehood ran through this issue. Three Nisei, Ben Tashiro, Tamao Monden and Jack Mizuha, were named to the…
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Typhoon Vera relief and the rewards of belonging in 1959
Relief for the victims of Typhoon Vera in Nagoya, Japan, filled the front page of this eight-page issue. A West…
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JACL’s 1960-70 Planning Commission and the new immigration amendments
JACL looked ahead to its next decade in this eight-page issue. The front page reported the organization of a 1960-70…
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Little Rock, Inouye’s visit and the JACL civil rights debate
Little Rock’s reopened Central High opened the editorial page, which argued that the city’s citizens and police had stood against…
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Welcoming Rep. Dan Inouye, and a civil rights push in 1959
Congressman Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, the first Japanese American elected to Congress, was the center of the front page.…
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The 1959 EDC-MDC convention, Hawaii’s new chief justice and a farewell to Issei friends
The Eastern and Midwest District Councils’ JACL convention in New York ran through this issue. Congressman Daniel K. Inouye urged…