Counting down to the 1960 JACL convention in Sacramento
Preparations for the 16th biennial National JACL Convention in Sacramento, June 28-July 2, filled the front page. Sterling Sakamoto reported…
Print Issue: 1960
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Nominations and convention plans: JACL in the spring of 1960
The 1960 National JACL Convention in Sacramento shaped much of this eight-page issue. An editorial reminded chapters that the May…
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Apartheid and Asians, plus scholarship and civil rights news
An editorial reprinted on the front page looked at how South Africa’s apartheid policies, including the Group Areas Act, treated…
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Apartheid, a Sacramento convention and Nisei news, 1960
An editorial on apartheid in South Africa led this eight-page issue. It described the police violence against protesters and argued…
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Civil rights, a treaty in Japan and chapter news, April 1960
Civil rights ran through this eight-page issue. A U.S. Civil Rights Commission report found California leading the nation in democratic…
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Youth, delinquency and the JACL’s plans for 1960
Young people stood at the center of this eight-page issue. The front-page editorial looked at the White House Conference on…
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Sit-ins in the South, and JACL’s plans for the Sacramento convention
Civil rights ran through the April 1, 1960 issue. The front-page editorial looked at the lunch counter sit-ins in the…
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Immigration reform and the push for Issei citizenship, 1960
Immigration and citizenship ran through the front page and the back of this eight-page issue. The Immigration and Naturalization Service…
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Civil rights, a Nisei Week calendar and Issei naturalization in 1960
Civil rights ran through this eight-page issue. Mike Masaoka’s Washington Newsletter reviewed the House and Senate debates and named which…
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Voter registration, bowling records and the 1960 Sacramento convention
Voter registration time in California set the tone for the front-page editorial, which urged JACL members to become informed voters…
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Civil rights and Sister City ties in the March 4, 1960 issue
Civil rights ran through the news of this eight-page issue. Mike Masaoka’s Washington Newsletter described the Senate’s around-the-clock sessions as…
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1960: a slur on Olympic TV and a chapter’s first Issei president
Nisei were shocked when CBS commentators used a racial slur for Japanese Americans while broadcasting the Winter Olympics from Squaw…
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Return of vested property, and a Nisei bowling tournament in Denver
Private property rights led this eight-page issue. Harry K. Honda’s front-page editorial urged JACL chapters to clip Mike Masaoka’s Washington…
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Civil rights legislation and JACL’s plans for 1960-70
Federal civil rights legislation was the main subject of this 8-page issue. An editorial signed H.H. urged Nisei to act…
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Planning the 1960s: JACL asks members for input before convention
The 1960-70 JACL Planning Commission asked chapters and individuals to send in their views on the organization’s program emphases for…
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Housing discrimination hearings and JACL’s next decade, 1960
Fred Takata and Frank Chuman were at the center of this eight-page issue, which reported on the U.S. Commission on…