Redress bill sponsors, Hawaii’s House Speaker, and a Smithsonian exhibit
Redress led the front page. Sen. Spark Matsunaga planned to introduce the Senate redress bill on March 26 with at…
Print Issue: 1987
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Redress bills gain Senate sponsors and a House hearing date
Redress legislation led the March 20, 1987 issue. The front page reported that the Senate redress bill, expected to be…
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Asian admissions at UC Berkeley and Gordon Hirabayashi’s appeal
A UC Berkeley report on Asian American admissions led the front page. The university concluded it does not discriminate, but…
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Redress bill sponsors, the Chin retrial and Day of Remembrance events
New co-sponsors for the House and Senate redress bills led the front page, announced by JACL-LEC executive director Grayce Uyehara.…
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Judge Gus Solomon dies; redress and a Day of Remembrance
The front page carried the death of U.S. District Judge Gus Solomon, who died Feb. 15 at age 80. His…
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JACL’s ‘Jpn.’ campaign, hate-crime data and redress bills
A campaign to replace “Jap.” with “Jpn.” as the abbreviation for Japan and Japanese led the front page. Japan’s Prime…
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Redress bill gains co-sponsors as Day of Remembrance nears
Redress was the main subject of the front page. Redress bill H.R. 442 gained three more co-sponsors, JACL-LEC executive director…
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Redress after Sala Burton’s death, and George Nakashima’s Altar of Peace
The Pacific Citizen’s February 6, 1987 issue followed the redress bill closely. Rep. Sala Burton, a co-sponsor of H.R. 442,…
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Anti-Asian bigotry, the UC admissions debate and a change of editors
Anti-Asian bigotry ran through this eight-page issue. The Pacific Citizen reported on the University of California admissions controversy, with comments…
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Redress bills, hate crimes and Asian American representation, 1987
Redress and the wider fight against bigotry ran through the January 23, 1987 issue. Lynn Sakamoto reported on Grant Ujifusa’s…
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Yasui coram nobis case continues; redress bill introduced
The Pacific Citizen reported that the family of the late Minoru Yasui and their attorneys will continue his coram nobis…
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Looking back at 1986: redress, coram nobis and a year in chronologies
The Pacific Citizen opened 1987 by looking back at the year before. A set of 1986 chronologies compiled by J.K.…