The Japanese American Citizens League

The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) was organized in the late 1920s by a small group of young, professional nisei in response to the anti-Japanese fervor of the times. The organization was decidedly patriotic and dealt with discrimination by emphasizing American citizenship, loyalty, and assimilation. Because of their ideology, JACL members were recruited by the military to assist in carrying out the "evacuation" orders, and they urged Japanese Americans to cooperate with the government. The group inspired strong, mixed feelings among Japanese Americans during this time. However, in the years following the war, the JACL regained much of its former support by successfully overturning many legal barriers for Japanese Americans.

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 58, Vol. 19 (May 8, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-19)

Selected article titles: "'Twilight Zone' Episode Repeats Pearl Harbor Rumor against Nisei" (p.1), "Purpose and Use of JACL's New Civil Rights Fund Aired" (p.1-2), "President Johnson Commends JACL for Efforts against Discrimination" (p.1); "Status of Civil Rights Bill" (p.2), "JACLer Glad to Have Picketed against Housing Initiative" (p.2), "Racial Quotas Hiring Demand Ruled Illegal" (p.4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-36-19/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 58, Vol. 25 (June 19, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-25)

Selected article titles: "President Johnson May Sign Civil Rights Omnibus July 4" (p.1-2), "JACL Convention to Fete Ben Kuroki for Aiding Evacuees" (p.1), "PSWDC Proposals to Defeat Housing Initiative Bared" (p.1), "Denaturalized Issei Overstaying Abroad Asked to Reapply" (p.1), "Questions of Youth Assembly" (p.2), "Canada Not Proud of Wartime Treatement of Evacuees: Pearson" (p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-36-25/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 50, No.2 (January 8, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-2)

Select article titles: "JACL Invited to Attend Special Civil Rights Planning Parley" (p.1); "Memorial to Honor Issei Sailor to be Placed at San Diego Hospital" (p.1); "Arizona Nisei Denied Marriage License" (p.1); "Pioneer Issei author nearly forgotten man; bed-ridden 15 years by tuberculosis" (p. 6); "Japanese gardens at U.W. arboretum to feature teahouse" (p.7)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-32-2/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 51, No. 22 (November 25, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-48)

Select article titles: "Praise Public Relations Job by Washington JACL Representative" (p. 1); "Negro editorial calls for responsible Nisei and Negro leaders of Los Angeles to work out problems of mutual concern" (p. 7)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-32-48/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 51, No. 1 (July 1, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-27)

Select article titles: "League plans definitive Issei history" (p.1); "Visiting novelist from Japan compares 'children of setting sun' with U.S. beatniks" (p.6); "78-year-old Issei among few survivors of first shipload of Japanese to Hawaii" (p.7); "'Japanese go home' incidents reported by Nisei newspaperman in wake of Eisenhower's visit to Japan being postponed" (p.8)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-32-27/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 12 (March 24, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-12)

Selected article titles: "Laud Board Meeting Most Productive" (p. 1), "Rep. Inouye Warns JACL Bowling Dinner Audience of Grave International Situation" (p. 1), "East of the River: Strategy of Protest Against Use of 'Jap'" (p. 2), and "Nat'l Board Recommends..." (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-12/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 4 (January 27, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-4)

Selected article titles: "Walter Tsukamoto Succumbs: Served for Thirty Years in Army with Distinction" (p. 1), "Americanism Was Foremost in Life of Past Nat'l President" (p. 1), and "Chuman Warns West L.A. JACL Members Be Registered Voters" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-4/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 24 (June 16, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-24)

Selected article titles: "JACL Objects to Proposed Rules of Equal Employment" (p. 1), "Fair Housing Bill Dies in California Senate Committee" (p. 1), "'Command Decision': Evacuation, Part 3" (p. 1), and "New York JACL Report: 'Open Letter' to Prospective and Current Members" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-24/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 6 (February 10, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-6)

Selected article titles: "Colorado Aliens Barred From Work at Bars: Or in Any Place Licensed to Sell Liquor, Says Yasui" (p. 1), "Nisei Acceptance Not Permanent, Enomoto Tells Sacramento JACL" (p. 2), and "Five Chapters Reach All-Time High Membership: First Official 1961 Report Shows National Total of 6,125 CLers" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-6/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 13 (September 29, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-39)

Selected article titles: "Bartender's Racial Bias Draws Fines Totalling [sic] $6,100" (p. 1), "Seattle Sending 30-Ft. Cedar Totem Pole at Sister City Gesture to Kobe, Weighs a Ton" (p. 1), and "New Lustre on American Democracy Viewed as First Negro Federal District Judge Sworn in on Constitution Week" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-39/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 11 (September 15, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-37)

Selected article titles: "Five More $1,000 Contributions Given to 'Issei Story;' General Drive Coming" (p. 1), "New State Laws Trimming Racial Discrimination in Housing Effective This Month in New York and Massachusetts" (p. 2), "Inequality of Opportunities by Negroes Reason for Evidence of Their Inferiority in Intelligence with Whites" (p. 3), and "1000 Paper Cranes Presented …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-37/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 10 (September 8, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-36)

Selected article titles: "Congressional Record Inks IDC Confab" (pp. 1, 4), "A Sansei Speaks Up" (p. 1), "World's Rice Supply Could Be Doubled in 15 Years on Existing Knowledge" (p. 2), and "High Rate of Japanese Youth Suicides Linked to 'Examination Hell'" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-36/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 16 (April 21, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-16)

Selected article titles: "Walter Ready to Loosen Up Rigid Immigration Law: Unused Quotas for Use by American Relatives Reported in New Bill" (p. 1), "Civil Rights Gains in Oregon, but Stymied in California: Oregon Barber Shops, Beauty Salons Can't Discriminate Save for 'Just' Cause" (p. 1), "New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Discusses Background of JACL, of …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-16/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 1 (January 6, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-1)

Selected article titles: "PC with Membership Starts Today with 10,000 Circulation" (p. 1), "Column Left: JACL History Project: Issei Story" (pp. 2, 4), "Tokyo Topics: New Ikeda Cabinet Organized, Not Likely to Last; Socialist Mission Called 'Joke'" (p. 3), and "Living with JACL: The 1929 Conference" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-1/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 8 (August 25, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-34)

Selected article titles: "Simple Rites Mark Farewell to Aki Hayashi, Cancer Victim at 48" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: Congressional Questionnaires" (p. 1), "Research on Bilingualism Bogs as Japanese-English Speaking Women Shy' (p. 2), and "Michener Explains Last April's Row" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-34/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 14 (April 7, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-14)

Selected article titles: "'60 Census Shows 464,000 Japanese in United States: Rank as Leading Asian Group, Chinese Follow with 237,000" (p. 1), "See Big Year for Civil Rights Legislation Throughout States: Six States Enact Fair Housing Acts; 20 Have State FEPC" (p. 1), and "District Reports: PNW-NC-WN: Emphasis of Youth Programs Seen" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-14/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 26 (June 30, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-26)

Selected article titles: "$300,000 Grant for History Asked, Outlook Encouraging" (p. 1), "Prime Minister Ikeda Cements Japanese-American Friendship in Washington Visit" (pp. 1-2), "'Command Decision': Evacuation, Part 5" (p. 1), and "Japanese Wives of Akron GIs Meet at International Institute, All Anxious to Learn More English and Become Americanized" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-26/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 22 (December 1, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-48)

Selected article titles: "Fresno Teacher Heard Telling Class of Nisei Treachery After Pearl Harbor; JACLer Takes Immediate Remedial Action" (p. 1), "Chuman Urges Revival of Moral Principles to Strengthen America" (p. 1), and "Nisei-Sansei Juvenile Arrests in Southland Mount to Shocking Proportions, Says JAY" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-48/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 5 (February 4, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-5)

Selected article titles: "Calif. Assembly Resolution for Anti-Nisei Racist Deplored" (p. 1), "Final Chapter Closes on Nisei Women Accused of Aiding German PWs to Escape" (p. 1), and "JACL Holds Keys to Open Doors for Its Members to Become Better American Citizens, Chuman Tells Venice-Culver Chapter" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-5/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 10 (March 10, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-10)

Selected article titles: "Idaho Legislature Passes First Comprehensive Civil Rights Bill' (p. 1), "Chapter Grappling with Local Problems and Encouraging Youth Activities Cited as New Emphasis for Gaining Memberships" (p. 1), and "PC Letterbox: '32 Convention Remembered Best" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-10/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 4 (July 28, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-30)

Selected article titles: "Washington Newsletter: New Frontier Appraisal" (p. 1), "Brown Signs Bill Eliminating Citizenship Requirement to Qualify for Old Age Pension" (p. 1), "Li'l Tokio Groups to Push Study of Old Age Problems" (p. 3), and "Eastern District Council Report: Another Side to JACL's PR Question" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-30/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 25 (December 22, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-51)

Special holiday issue organized into sections A 1-24, B 1-16, and C 1-4. Selected article titles: "'Evacuation' JACL Statement and Command Decision" (pp. A-1, A-3-A-7), "Nisei Actors Come of Age" (p. A-8), "Chronology of War Relocation Authority Activities" (pp. A-22-A-23), and "JACL vs. Lechner" (pp. B-15-B-16). The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-51/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 54, No. 17 (April 27, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-17)

Selected article titles: "Non-Commercial FM Station Seeks Nisei Subscribers" (p.1), "Supreme Court Extends Reapportionment Decision to Empower State Courts to Review" (p.1), "Kennedy's Order Extending Civil Rights in Okinawa Welcomed but Not Enough" (p.2), "Dreamy Proposals of Future Li'l Tokio Unveiled at USC" (p.2), "JACL to Promote Equal Opportunties in Apprenticeship and Training of Minority Groups; …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-34-17/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 54, No. 21 (May 25, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-21)

Selected article titles: "Chuman Admonishes PSW Chapters" (p.1, 4), "Nisei Organized Firm Quoted Daily on Over Counter List" (p.1), "Housing Bias Report on Berkeley Due" (p.1), "Dr. Ogura Develops Substitute Larynx for Dog in Step to Aid Throat Cancer Victims" (p.2), "College Essay on Resettlement Patterns of Evacuees Wins Top Michigan Award" (p.2), "California Farmers Threatened …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-34-21/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 54, No. 24 (June 15, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-24)

Selected article titles: "JACL to Aid Claimants Sued for Taxes" (p.1), "'Japanese' Touch at World's Fair" (p.1), "On Juvenile Delinquency" (p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-34-24/