Civil rights, final evacuation claims and the Nisei Week season
Civil rights ran through this eight-page issue. JACL’s letter to the House Judiciary Subcommittee urged federal civil rights legislation, drawing…
Print Issue: 1959
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The future of JACL’s Washington Office, and a call for civil rights laws
The future of JACL’s Washington Office was the main question in this eight-page issue. Harry Honda reported that National President…
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Fair housing laws and unemployment worries in the May 1, 1959 issue
Fair housing and fair employment ran through the front page of this eight-page issue. Colorado’s new Fair Housing Act got…
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California’s first FEPC law and the push for a federal one
California’s new Fair Employment Practices Act was the news of this 8-page issue. Governor Brown signed the state’s first FEPC…
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California’s fair employment bill and a youth-minded JACL spring
California’s Rumford Fair Employment Practice bill led the issue. JACL chapters in the state had pushed for such a law…
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California’s FEPC bill and the last evacuation claims, April 1959
California’s Fair Employment Practices Act was the lead story of this eight-page issue. The state Senate passed it 30-5, and…
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Arizona’s alien land law and the push to liberalize immigration
An alien land law still on Arizona’s books was the subject of the front-page editorial, which noted that Nisei in…
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Fair housing laws and Hawaii statehood, March 1959
Fair housing led the news in this eight-page issue. Colorado’s legislature passed a bill against discrimination in most housing, and…
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Hawaii statehood: Eisenhower signs the bill, JACL celebrates
Hawaiian statehood filled this eight-page issue. President Eisenhower signed the admission bill on March 18, 1959, using nine pens, and…
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Hawaii statehood, bowling records and the Pacific Citizen’s money troubles
The Pacific Citizen opened this eight-page issue with its own finances. The paper reported its worst year in 1958, a…
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Hawaii statehood and a Senate hearing, March 1959
Hawaii’s bid for statehood led this eight-page issue. The Senate Interior Committee unanimously advanced the statehood bill, and Mike Masaoka…
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JACL’s 50,000-member goal and Idaho’s repeal of its marriage ban
JACL membership and civil rights shared the front page. National JACL President Shig Wakamatsu set a goal of 50,000 members…
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Hawaii statehood foes, Washington’s alien land law and chapter news
Opposition to Hawaiian statehood drew the front page. Racist leaflets from the American Nationalist group in Inglewood, Calif., were circulating,…
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Bakersfield forms a JACL chapter and a Native Son admits a mistake
Two stories led the news. Forty Nisei met with JACL National Director Mas Satow and voted to form the Bakersfield…
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Chapter installations and a push for Hawaiian statehood
Chapter news filled the pages of this eight-page issue, and the editors said so themselves: there was too much news…
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A first for JACL: an Issei chapter president, and civil rights bills
Gongoro Nakamura, a naturalized Issei, was named 1959 president of the Downtown Los Angeles JACL, and the paper marked the…