The 1968 holiday issue: Meiji Centennial, Korematsu and the Nisei
JACL President Jerry Enomoto opened the issue with a holiday column arguing that neutrality is impossible in the campus unrest…
Print Issue: 1968
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San Francisco State strike and the Nisei community, 1968
The student strike at San Francisco State College divided the Japanese American community in December 1968, and the front page…
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A panel on repealing Title II, and Hayakawa at San Francisco State
Public interest in the wartime camps was still high in this six-page issue. Dorothy Kawachi reported on a San Francisco…
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Repealing Title II and an Issei’s wait for justice, 1968
The Emergency Detention Act, known as Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, ran through this issue. Frank…
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A Buddhist bishop at Placer County’s dinner, and the 1968 election
A Buddhist bishop’s praise for the Issei opened this six-page issue. Bishop Kenryu Takashi Tsuji spoke at the Placer County…
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Mike Masaoka honored in Tokyo, and JACL weighs civil rights
Mike Masaoka was the subject of the day. Tamotsu Murayama reported that Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato presented the JACL…
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A campaign to repeal the Emergency Detention Act, 1968 election and a slur
JACL’s call to repeal Title II of the 1950 Internal Security Act, the Emergency Detention Act, led the news. Chapters…
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Meiji Centennial honors for Kido and Yatabe, and the 1968 election
Honors from Japan led the news. In marking the Meiji Restoration centennial, the Japanese government decorated 61 foreigners, including JACL…
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Delano, Eldridge Cleaver and Seattle’s International District
Jerry Enomoto, JACL’s national president, led this six-page issue with two columns. In one he described an evening and a…
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Agnew’s slur against a Japanese American reporter and the JACL response
A racial slur used by Spiro Agnew toward a Japanese American reporter drew the sharpest response in this six-page issue.…
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JACL’s campaign against the Emergency Detention Act, 1968
JACL President Jerry Enomoto wrote two pieces on the front page, one praising the credit union movement on the 25th…
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Governor Agnew’s remark and the JACL response
Governor Agnew’s use of a racial slur for a Japanese American reporter, and how people answered it, ran through this…
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Scholarship candidates, Nisei in politics and the JACL’s civil rights push
Four candidates for the Dr. Matsumi Nobe Memorial graduate scholarship were named on the front page, with a judging committee…
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Mourning Officer Gary Murakami and a call to repeal the detention clause
Angelenos mourned Officer Gary Wayne Murakami, a 29-year-old Sansei police officer shot and killed in the Crenshaw district on his…
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1968 conventions, Hiroshima survivors and a Monterey Park threat
Two conventions and the people left out of them filled this six-page issue. National president Jerry Enomoto wrote about Hiroshima…
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The 1968 San Jose convention and the vote to repeal the detention camp clause
The 20th Biennial Convention in San Jose filled this issue. The JACL National Council voted to campaign for repeal of…