The 1961 holiday issue: remembering the wartime evacuation
The forced removal of some 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942 was the subject that ran through this 44-page holiday issue.…
Print Issue: 1961
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Chapter elections, civil rights news and a Pearl Harbor remembrance
Chapter and district news filled this four-page issue, with new leaders named from Central California and the Pacific Northwest to…
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A four-page issue: Masaoka’s speech on Japan and the Issei Story Project
The American image of Japan led this four-page issue. With Mike Masaoka away in Japan, the paper printed a speech…
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Stereotypes, a slur in the dictionary, and chapter news from a four-page 1961 issue
Stereotyping was the thread running through the commentary of this four-page issue. Mike Masaoka’s Washington Newsletter argued that generalizations about…
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A 1961 preview of the holiday issue and the push to tell the evacuation story
Plans for the 1961 holiday issue and a call to teach the public about the wartime incarceration shaped this four-page…
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A Nisei judges, JACL meetings and a call for cleaner politics
An editorial on politics and the public good opened this four-page issue, arguing that campaign charges and press sensationalism had…
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A four-page issue: US-Japan talks, race bias at work and a first for the Nisei VFW
Race and fair treatment ran through this four-page issue. Mike M. Masaoka wrote about the Hakone conference, where U.S. and…
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The campaign to retire an anti-Japanese slur, and the Issei Story drive
The word ‘Jap’ ran through this four-page issue. The Pacific Citizen reported that Canadian Nisei were working to end its…
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A year of PC with membership, and care for the Rohwer cemetery
Dr. Roy M. Nishikawa, the PC Board chairman, looked back on one year of sending the Pacific Citizen to every…
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Rohwer cemetery dedicated and a candid look at JACL finances
The Rohwer cemetery was dedicated as an Arkansas historical site, and the front page reported on it. Former residents came…
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Housing rights, Rohwer’s memorial and a TV film campaign
Fair housing led this four-page issue. In his Washington Newsletter, Mike Masaoka reported that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission urged…
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A judge named in Orange County, and a JACL at a postwar high
Stephan Tamura, a longtime Orange County JACLer, was appointed to the county bench by Governor Brown, a story by Frank…
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Chicago’s early membership drive and civil rights news in 1961
Chicago JACL’s plan to start its 1962 membership drive early led this four-page issue. Chicago was the first postwar chapter…
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Record membership, a scholarship winner and a 1966 convention bid
Record membership led the news in this four-page issue. National President Frank F. Chuman thanked chapter leaders for a total…
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The Issei Story Project and the Pocatello convention, 1961
The Issei Story Project and the coming Intermountain District Council convention in Pocatello, Idaho, filled the front page of this…
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Old age pensions for aliens and the fight against a slur in print
Two campaigns ran through this four-page issue. In California, Governor Brown signed a bill ending the citizenship requirement for the…