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. 103, No. 25 (December 19-26, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-50)

Special holiday issue organized into sections A 1-32, B 1-64, and A 33-64. Selected article titles: "As Others See Us: An Overview" (pp. A-4, A-13, A-20), "The Dilemma of the 'Model Minority' Image" (p. A-14), "Minoru Yasui, 1916-1986: In Remembrance" (pp. B-1-B-2), "The Nisei of the 1800 Engineer General Service Battalion: An Untold Story" (pp. B-39-B-40, …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 8 (August 22, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-33)

Selected article titles: "Foes of California English Initiative Form Coalition to Prevent Passage" (pp. 1, 8), "Japanese National Kept in Detention by Provision on McCarran-Walter Act" (pp. 1, 3), "President's Corner: Here's What We're Doing" (p. 5), and "U.S., Latin American Nikkei Athletes 'Go for the Gold' in Mexico Sportsfest" (pp. 6-7).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 102, No. 24 (June 20, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-24)

Selected article titles: "JAs Asked to Fight Navajo Relocation" (pp. 1, 7), "Is There an Emergency?" (pp. 4-5), and "LEC Update: Vital Links" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-58-24/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 13 (September 26, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-38)

Selected article titles: "Anti-Asian Violence Seen as Nationwide Problem" (pp. 1, 8), "JACL Election Spawns Controversy: Do Delegates Obey Chapter or District?" (pp. 1-2, 4), "Task Force Hearings: New York Asians Speak on Community Issues" (p. 3), and "Asian Groups Unanimous in Opposing Prop. 63" (p. 6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-58-38/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 1 (July 4, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-26)

Selected article titles: "Hearing on Aleut Redress Slated" (p. 1), "Seabrook: A Story of Resilience" (pp. 1, 8), "History Students Get First-Hand Account of Japanese American WW2 Experience" (p. 3), and "The PC Editor Search" (pp. 5, 7).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-58-26/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 14 (October 3, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-39)

Selected article titles: "Change in JACL Election Laws Urged: Bloc Voting, Proxies at Issue After Charges of 'Coercion'" (pp. 1-2, 5), "JA Ethnic Hospitals Gone But Still Needed, Researcher Says" (pp. 1, 8), "Congressmen, Community Leaders Protest: Minorities React Angrily to Nakasone's Remark on Race" (pp. 1, 3), and "GM Exec, Nevada Official Chided for Calling …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 17 (October 24, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-42)

Selected article titles: "Calif. Supreme Court: Bird: Independent Judiciary Vital to Rights of Minorities" (pp. 1, 5), "Nat'l Board Confronts Budget Problems: Falling Renewals and Redress Pledges Seen as Major Factors" (pp. 1, 3), "Council Approves 'Onizuka Street' in J-Town" (pp. 1, 8), and "From the Frying Pan: JAs 'Going Public'" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 23 (December 5, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-48)

Selected article titles: "New Series a Unique Chance for JA Actors" (pp. 1-2), "Immigration Bill: Attorneys Try to Decode New Technicalities" (pp. 1-2), "By the Board: Budgetary Realities" (p. 4), and "Newspapers Comment on Redress Issue" (p. 10).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 102, No. 16 (April 25, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-16)

Selected article titles: "Bay Area Conference to Examine Ways to Deal with Rise in Anti-Asian Violence" (p. 1), "Garden Dedicated to Issei Pioneers" (p. 3), "By the Board: Staff, Power and Influence" (pp. 4, 8), and "From the Frying Pan: Six Who Were Rescued" (p. 5).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 7 (February 20, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-7)

Selected article titles: "'Hate Crimes': Fight Goes on in Congress, on Streets" (pp. 1-2, 4-5), "Hongo Offers a Poet's View of JA Experience" (pp. 1, 8), "JACL's Future Function" (p. 4), and "Could Matsui Win the '88 Senate Race?" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-7/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 12 (March 27, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-12)

Selected article titles: "'More Perfect Union': Smithsonian Gets Hate Mail on JA Exhibit" (pp. 1, 3), "Walerga Park: WW2 Assembly Center Site Memorialized with Plaque" (pp. 1, 3), "JACL Personnel Manual: Framework for Discussion" (pp. 4-5), and "Backlash on the Campuses" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-12/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 4 (January 30, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-4)

Selected article titles: "Asians Overrepresented?: UC President's Statement Adds to Admissions Debate" (pp. 1, 3), "Who Do We Think We Are?" (p. 4), "Quell the Anti-Asian Bigotry" (p. 5), and "Asian Carry-Out Reopened; Black Demonstrations End" (p. 8).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-4/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 1 (January 2-9, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-1)

Special New Year edition. Selected article titles: "Jackson: Japan Must Improve Treatment of Minorities" (pp. 1, 13), "Putting Substance Behind Our Words" (p. 8), "1986 Chronology" (pp. 10-12), and "Joseph Heco and the Joseph Heco Society" (pp. 18, 20-21).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 11 (March 20, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-11)

Selected article titles: "Senate Sponsors of Redress Bill Surpass Halfway Mark" (p. 1), "Asian Admissions Task Force Meets with UC President" (pp. 1, 3), "Finding the Funding" (pp. 4-5, 8), and "Funds Raised for LEC: New York Nikkei Commemorate Internment with Jazz" (p. 8).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 6 (September 4, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-31)

Selected article titles: "Peace Conference Commemorates Bombing of City" (p. 1), "'JACL to Come' Explored by Writer" (pp. 1, 5), "Exhibit to Show History of U.S. Nikkei" (pp. 2, 4), and "Letter Reveals Hardships of Post War Japan" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-31/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 14 (October 30, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-39)

Selected article titles: "S. 1009 Redress Bill Out of Committee, Revised: Senate Ready to Vote on S.1009; Payment Schedule Explained" (p. 1), "Inouye May Be Next Senate Leader" (pp. 2-3), "Missile Tests: Soviet Action Shocks Matsunaga" (p. 3), and "JACL to Follow Yasuhara Plan After Redress" (pp. 4-5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-39/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 8 (February 27, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-8)

Selected article titles: "Bill's Backers Optimistic" (pp. 1, 4), "JACL Reacts to INS Plan to Put Arabs in Detention Camp" (pp. 1-2), "The Continuing PC Saga: A Brief Synopsis" (p. 4), and "Solicitations Planned: JACL Explores Ways to Attract Members" (p. 8).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 20 (December 18-25, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-45)

Special holiday issue organized into sections A 1-32, B 1-56, and A 33-64. Selected article titles: "The JACL World to Come, According to Toffler" (p. A-3), "JACL in the Year 2000" (p. A-24), "Will Japanese Americans Become Extinct?" (p. B-10), and "The Bird Pines" (pp. B-28-B29, B-48-B-49, B-51). The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 9 (March 6, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-9)

Selected article titles: "L.A. County: Commission Reports Rise in Hate Crime" (pp. 1, 3), "Chin Trial Moved to Ohio" (p. 1), "Focus on Japanese Americans: Opening Date, Ceremonies Set for Smithsonian Exhibit" (pp. 1, 4), and "Changes in JACL Personnel Manual Proposed" (pp. 1-2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 107, No. 2 (July 22-29, 1988) (ddr-pc-60-27)

Selected article titles: "Masaoka Warns Resolution Endangers Redress Program" (pp. 1, 10), "Candlelit Lantern Floats, Buddhist-Christian Services to Remember Hibakusha of Hiroshima-Nagasaki" (p. 3), "National JACL Constitution / Bylaws" (pp. 7-10), and "Former Renunciant Charges WW2 Scientist with Defamation" (p. 13).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 15 (April 18, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-15)

Selected article titles: "National Dialogue: Planning and Research" (pp. 1-2), "Wider Ethnic Tally Likely in 1980, Says Census Chief" (p. 1), "U.S. Emotions High to Assist V'Nam Refugees" (p. 1), and "PC Coverage, Features Weighed" (p. 1).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 82, No. 7 (February 20, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-7)

Selected article titles: "To the Point: Ushio's Record" (p. 1), "Nat'l Faces 100-G Deficit" (p. 1), "Ye Editor's Desk: An Uncompromising Hayakawa" (p. 1), and "Concent. Camps" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 83, No. 6 (August 6, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-31)

Selected article titles: "Rumsfeld Praises Nisei War Record" (p. 1), "National Council Narrative: Final Session: Policies, Budget, Election" (pp. 1-3), and "Policy Statements" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 82, No. 25 (June 25, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-25)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Veterans in Mass Tribute to Buddies at D.C." (pp. 1-2), "From JACL National Headquarters Communications: Committee for Iva Toguri" (p. 1), "A Nisei in Japan: In Search of Identity" (p. 2), and "Plain Speaking: Tough Issues and Decisions" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 82, No. 12 (March 26, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-12)

Selected article titles: "JACL--Organizational Structure: Appraising JACL: A Need for Change" (p. 1), "'Go for Broke!' vs. 'Farewell to Manzanar'" (pp. 1-2), "Mixed Marriage Rate Among Japanese in San Francisco Still 6 Out of 10" (p. 1), and "Washington Newsletter: In Memoriam: Mas Satow" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-48-12/