Activism and involvement

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 16 (October 17, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-41)

Selected article titles: "Long Delay Broken in Yoshino Job Bias Case" (pp. 1-2), "Tenno Sweeps Across U.S." (pp. 1-2), "Minority One: Justice for All" (p. 2), and "Impressions from Tokyo" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-41/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2027 (January 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-3)

Selected article titles: "I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin Urging Kenzo Label Change" (p. 1), "Yankee Samurai: Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory" (pp. 1, 9-12), "Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy Saw Evacuation as 'Cruel Joke'" (p. 2), and "Min Yasui Letters: From the Multnomah Jail" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-51-3/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2046 (June 8, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-22)

Select article titles: "Ruled as 'Adequate Rep' in Class Action Suit vs. WSU" (pp. 1, 5), "Plaque Dedicated at Tule Lake Campsite" (p. 1), "JACL Suports Boycott of Squibb to Fight 'Opium'" (pp. 1, 7), and "Echoes from Shiroyama: Kashiwabara: Was the Evacuation Good or Bad?" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-51-22/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 21 (June 1, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-21)

Select article titles: "White House Hears JACL Views on Civil Rights Bill"(p.1); "Outstanding Convention Panel on U.S.-Japan Workshop Set"(p.1); "Asian Pacifics form Advocacy Group on Reappointment"(p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-62-21/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 115, No. 20 (December 18-25, 1992) (ddr-pc-64-45)

Select article titles: "Nationalizing redress" (p. A-13); "Women in JACL" (P. A9); "Born to teach" (p. A20); "The journey to Hiroshima" (p. A21) "Making diversity America's strength" (p. B7); "JACL project preserves history of Japanese Americans" (p. B13); "King Kalakaua and Japanese immigration" (p.C1). The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-64-45/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 115, No. 4 (August 14-21, 1992) (ddr-pc-64-29)

Select article titles: "JACL's 32nd biennial convention" (p. 1); "Mix-up mars election" (p. 1); "Empowerment and involvement" (p. 3); "Redress funding bill needs support, staff says" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-64-29/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 115, No. 12 (October 16, 1992) (ddr-pc-64-37)

Select article titles: "Trial set for man accused in death of Vietnamese" (p. 1); "Supreme Court dismisses Jacobs redress lawsuit" (p. 1); "Youth in force" (p. 1).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-64-37/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 121, No. 9 (November 3-16, 1995) (ddr-pc-67-21)

Selected article titles: "Bill Would Stop APs from Reuniting with Families Overseas" (p. 1), "Veteran's Day Tribute" (p. 1), "JACL Board Supports Kaji, Alleged Wrongdoing Repudiated" (pp. 4, 12), and "Nisei of WWII Japan, Manchukuo Speak Out" (pp. 10-11).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-67-21/

doc Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to the Advisory Council, February 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-93)

Memo regarding peace movement headed by I. Uji of Block 53, Ward 6. Text provides Uji's full name (Iwao Uji) and also mentions June Sasaki and "Mrs. Matsuda" as other leaders of the peace movement; discusses their request for direct consultation with the Advisory Council. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-2-93/

doc Letter from the Suzuki's to Rev. and Mrs. Miller, circa 1942 (ddr-csujad-20-13)

Letter from the Suzuki's to Rev. and Mrs. Miller regarding recent happenings at the Santa Anita Assembly Center. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WLM_01-46_14

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-20-13/

doc Letter from Lester Suzuki to Brother [Wendell L.] Miller, May 4, 1942 (ddr-csujad-20-3)

Personal letter written from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center and describing early days there, including lack of regular work and schooling schedules and of appropriate food for children; scouts and boys' clubs being in development; religious services on Sundays attracting nearly 2000 people; and the need to wait for community facilities such as laundry and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-20-3/

doc Letter from George K. Sakai, 1942 May 4 (ddr-csujad-20-14)

Letter from George Sakai to United Methodist Church regarding address information for a mutual friend. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WLM_01-46_13

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-20-14/

doc Letter from Mrs. L. [Lester] Suzuki to Rev. [Wendell L.] and Mrs. [?] Miller, May 5, 1942 (ddr-csujad-20-4)

Personal letter written from the Santa Anita Assembly Center. Suzuki thanks Reverend Miller and Mrs. Miller for their kindness; mentions friends among the "dear Caucasian ministers such as you"; and discusses the importance of religious services, housing in a new barrack vs. in the stables, making furniture from scrap wood, an impending increase in number of …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-20-4/

doc Victim of the Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) (ddr-csujad-26-31)

An affidavit written to invalidate purported distortions and false accusations made against the author in two books published using research material collected by Rosalie Hankey Wax during de Cristoforo's incarceration at Tule Lake. The books are "Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice" by Rosalie H. Wax and "The Spoilage" by Dorothy Swaine Thomas and Richard S. Nishimoto …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-31/

doc American refugees (ddr-csujad-48-47)

American refugees, June 1942. Appeal opposing the Japanese American mass removal from the U.S. west coast. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_wells_0047

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-47/

doc Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to Chief of Police Schmidt [Willard E. Schmidt], February 3, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-72)

Calls for special meeting of the Project Director, Advisory Council, and Co-ordinating Committee to discuss Committee recommendations, and refers to four attached memoranda, each from Co-ordinating Committee 1608-A to R. [Raymond] R. Best, Project Director, dated February 2, 1944 and written by Byron Akitsuki, Executive Secretary. Subjects of the memoranda are: Receipt of Red Cross Gift …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-2-72/

doc College summer service in a relocation center (ddr-csujad-18-5)

Call for college students to meet a "desperate need" by serving as group work leaders supporting community activities, arts and recreation, church vacation Bible schools, and boys and girls clubs in either the Gila River or Manzanar Incarceration Camp; flier states that such service would provide the students with the opportunity to "serve significantly in these …

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doc Church Women Ask: How Can We Help Japanese American evacuees (ddr-csujad-18-6)

Suggestions for church women on how to help Japanese Americans who are forced to evacuate. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: RSG_01-02

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-18-6/

doc A celebration of life... (ddr-csujad-24-127)

This is a pamphlet from a memorial service for Michi Weglyn at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_09_012

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-127/

doc Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, April 18, 1991 (ddr-csujad-24-112)

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin about the upcoming release of his book. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_08_014

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-112/

img Photograph of Michi Weglyn (ddr-csujad-24-146)

A photograph of Michi Weglyn. Written notes on the back side of the photograph read "credit: Dick Marshall" and "-Latest -this photo you may keep." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_10_014a

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-146/

doc Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, October 22, 1986 (ddr-csujad-24-49)

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin in which she describes a conversation she had with Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_02_008

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-49/

doc Letter from Paul Tsuneishi to Ruth Mizobe Shikada, December 30, 1997 (ddr-csujad-24-186)

A letter from Paul Tsuneishi to Ruth Mizobe Shikada, inviting her to speak at a tribute to Michi Weglyn on February 21, 1998. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_74_02_005

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-186/

img Photographs of Michi Weglyn, Walter M. Weglyn, and others (ddr-csujad-24-154)

A montage of four photographs of Michi Weglyn, Walter M. Weglyn, and two other men. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_10_022

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-154/

img Photograph of Michi Weglyn (ddr-csujad-24-161)

A Photograph of Michi Weglyn. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_10_029

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-161/

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