A Salinas camp monument, redress efforts and the Vincent Chin case
The front page carried news on several fronts. The Salinas City Council unanimously approved a Kinenhi Monument at the site…
Print Issue: 1983
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Redress debate and the Tri-District Conference in Reno, 1983
Redress ran through the front page and beyond. A reader’s rebuttal to John J. McCloy’s anti-redress column opened the issue,…
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Redress, the coram nobis cases and a judge’s run for the state Supreme Court
The front page carried the campaign of Judge William M. Marutani, who was endorsed by the Philadelphia Inquirer in his…
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Manzanar’s 14th pilgrimage and the redress campaign, April 1983
The Manzanar Pilgrimage led the front page. The Manzanar Committee of Los Angeles announced final plans for the 14th annual…
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Redress, the Yasui case and the Vincent Chin sentence
Redress and the Vincent Chin case shared the front page. In Detroit, Asian American leaders met Judge Charles Kaufman to…
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Redress momentum, coram nobis fundraising and the 100th/442nd’s 40th anniversary
The 1983 redress effort ran through this issue. JACL National President Floyd Shimomura wrote that the CWRIC report condemning the…
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JACL plans a Japan delegation and doubles its redress spending
The JACL National Board’s March meeting set the course for this issue. The Board approved a fall delegation to Japan,…
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Coram nobis petitions and the NCJAR reparations suit, March 1983
The front page carried the fight over redress in the courts and in state government. Judge Marilyn Patel received the…
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Reactions to the CWRIC report, and a fundraiser for the coram nobis cases
The Pacific Citizen devoted most of this issue to the findings of the CWRIC, the federal commission that studied the…
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The CWRIC report and redress: economic loss, Puyallup, Reno
Redress was the subject of this eight-page issue, the first to run excerpts from the Commission on Wartime Relocation and…
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The CWRIC report, “Personal Justice Denied,” and the community’s response
The Pacific Citizen led with the release of the first part of the report by the Commission on Wartime Relocation…
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Day of Remembrance, the redress report and U.S.-Japan trade
The front page of this issue carried the Day of Remembrance marking the 41st anniversary of Executive Order 9066, proclaimed…
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Redress debate and the Day of Remembrance, February 1983
The front page carried the redress question. Min Yasui, chairman of JACL’s National Committee for Redress, clarified that a $50,000…
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Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Yasui file suits to overturn wartime convictions
The front page carried news that Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu and Min Yasui had each filed petitions to overturn their…
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Redress reaches San Francisco city workers, plus JACL installations
San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed an ordinance granting reparations for salary losses to city employees of Japanese ancestry who…
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Coram nobis petitions and redress news, January 1983
Fred Korematsu, Min Yasui and Gordon Hirabayashi announced plans to seek reversals of their World War II Supreme Court cases,…