Reparations plans and the road to the Sacramento convention
Reparations dominated this four-page issue. A National JACL Reparations Campaign Committee meeting in Portland drafted a basic plan of $5,000…
Print Issue: 1976
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A dispute over JACL travel and Justice Clark’s words on the evacuation
A retired Associate Justice’s regret over the wartime forced removal led this four-page issue. Tom Clark wrote a preface to…
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A JACL reparations committee meets in Moses Lake
Reparations for Japanese Americans were the main subject of this four-page issue. A front-page story reported that the JACL National…
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News of the Hearst case, redress and JACL leadership, April 1976
News on the front page of this four-page issue ranged widely. KQED reported that Wendy Yoshimura drove a switch car…
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Affirmative action and a Nikkei parole officer, April 1976
A Los Angeles parole officer, Randy Yamanaka, said he was being pushed out of his career because he is Japanese…
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Executive Order 9066, Manzanar on TV, and Project Responsiveness
Executive Order 9066 and the wartime incarceration (often called internment) ran through this four-page issue. On the front page, Washington…
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Lifting Executive Order 9066, Tokyo Rose, and remembering Mas Satow
Executive Order 9066 and the Iva Toguri case led this six-page issue. The Seattle JACL Evacuation Redress Committee was credited…
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Remembering Mas Satow, and a debate over Farewell to Manzanar
Two writers took opposite sides of a television film in this four-page issue. Frank Chin argued that the NBC film…
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The JACL budget fight and the debate over Farewell to Manzanar
The JACL National Board’s proposed $470,000 budget for FY 1977-78 led the news. Harry Honda reported on the board’s debate…
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Remembering Masao W. Satow, longtime JACL national director
The death of Masao W. Satow filled the front page of this four-page issue. Satow served as JACL national director…
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JACL’s budget cuts, the Executive Order 9066 rescission and Farewell to Manzanar
The JACL National Board’s budget was the lead story of this four-page issue. After several rounds of cuts, the board…
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President Ford rescinds Executive Order 9066, February 1976
President Ford’s proclamation rescinding Executive Order 9066 was the news of this six-page issue. Signed on February 19, 1976, before…
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David Ushio resigns as JACL executive director, 1976
David Ushio’s resignation as JACL National Executive Director led the front page. The story noted that his short tenure had…
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Jewish-Nikkei forum, the Rice Act and a director’s resignation
A Jewish-Nikkei forum in San Francisco, co-sponsored by the JACL and the American Jewish Committee, led this four-page issue. Speakers…
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A 1976 forum on Jewish and Japanese American bias
A panel at JACL Headquarters in San Francisco, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and JACL, compared discrimination against Jews…
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Planning the 1976 Sacramento convention, and the debate over Hayakawa’s column
Preparations for the 24th biennial JACL National Convention in Sacramento in June led this four-page issue, with family activities for…