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Executive meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, February 28, 1941 (ddr-csujad-44-178)
Executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, February 13, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-126)
Executive meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, April 11, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-131)
General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, September 12, 1940 (ddr-csujad-44-167)
General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, July 15, 1937 (ddr-csujad-44-91)
General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, May 18, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-133)
Special meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, January 26, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-125)
General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, February 22, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-127)
Executive meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, April 14, 1937 (ddr-csujad-44-80)
General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, January 12, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-123)
Executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, March 14, 1935 (ddr-csujad-44-63)
An Oral History with Katsuma Mukaeda (ddr-csujad-29-56)
An Oral History with Seiko Ishida (ddr-csujad-29-11)
Letter to Larry Tajiri from Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-462)
Alien Registration Receipt Card (ddr-densho-493-14)
Speech by Morio L. Fukuto, Associate Justice, Court of Appeals, to the Poston II reunion, August 29, 1987 (ddr-csujad-55-1872)
Opinion (War Relocation Authority), no. 82 (September 8, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1673)
Japanese immigration: the California point of view (ddr-csujad-55-364)
California and her less favored minorities: a study in the background of the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast (ddr-csujad-55-1648)
Japanese American Courier Vol. 15, No. 735 (February 13, 1942) (ddr-densho-96-770)
Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 651 (July 6, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-686)
Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 641 (April 27, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-676)
Japanese American Courier Vol. 14, No. 691 (April 12, 1941) (ddr-densho-96-726)
Japanese American Courier Vol. 12, No. 602 (July 29, 1939) (ddr-densho-96-637)
Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 655 (August 3, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-690)

187 items

doc Executive meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, February 28, 1941 (ddr-csujad-44-178)

Minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League executive meeting. Topics include the anti-alien fishing bill, the membership drive, and the suggestion to create a calendar of activities for the year to present to prospective members. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0177

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-178/

doc Executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, February 13, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-126)

Minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League executive board meeting. Topics discussed include profits from recent JACL-sponsored events, the "lawn proposition" for the Japanese Association Hall, and the anti-alien fishing bill. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0125

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-126/

doc Executive meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, April 11, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-131)

Minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League executive meeting. Includes discussion of matters relating to Assemblyman Weybret's opposition to the anti-alien fishing bill, the cherry tree formal presentation at the Monterey Union High School, and the proposal to display the chapter's American flag at the Monterey Bank show. See this object in the California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-131/

doc General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, September 12, 1940 (ddr-csujad-44-167)

Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Topics covered include the women's auxiliary, the "Tradewind," suggestions for JACL's participation in the Monterey County Fair, the proposal to sponsor a carnival in conjunction with the planned benefit drawing, and the anti-alien fishing bills. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-167/

doc General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, July 15, 1937 (ddr-csujad-44-91)

Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Includes reports from the treasurer, the Feast Of Lanterns boat parade committee, and the Fourth of July committee. Also includes discussion on matters relating to the Watsonville JACL, dues, the tea garden project, the donation drive to raise funds against anti-alien legislation, and the Northern California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-91/

doc General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, May 18, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-133)

Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Topics include the anti-alien fishing bills, the Japanese Association Hall lawn project, and the proposal to have the Southern District Council pay the deficit incurred by the anti-alien legislation. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0132

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-133/

doc Special meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, January 26, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-125)

Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Includes reports on the Northern California District Council meeting, and disagreements between first- and second-generation Japanese immigrants about the anti-alien fishing bill. Discussion topics include changes to the composition of the Executive Board, delegate nominations, and payment of member dues. See this object in the California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-125/

doc General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, February 22, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-127)

Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Discussion topics include the JACL-sponsored garden project at the Monterey Union High School, the anti-alien fishing bill, and the proposal that the Monterey Peninsula JACL sponsor the district convention in 1941. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0126

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-127/

doc Executive meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, April 14, 1937 (ddr-csujad-44-80)

Minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League executive meeting. Topics discussed include a telegram asking for help fighting anti-alien legislation, the membership drive, and picnics the chapter is organizing. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0079

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-80/

doc General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, January 12, 1939 (ddr-csujad-44-123)

Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Topics discussed include the upkeep of the Japanese Association Hall, the anti-alien fishing bill, the Northern California District Council gathering, and the skating party for the commemoration of the President's Ball. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0122

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-123/

doc Executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, March 14, 1935 (ddr-csujad-44-63)

Minutes of the third executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Topics include anti-alien land bills and related legislation discussed at a special session of the Northern California District Council, the appointment of Hal Higashi as chairman of the Public Relations Board, and the purchase of an American flag for club use. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-63/

vh An Oral History with Katsuma Mukaeda (ddr-csujad-29-56)

Chairman of Japanese American Cultural Center and former president of Japanese Chamber of Commerce recounts conditions of prewar Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, its wartime conversion into a black community, postwar reestablishment as a Japanese-American cultural and commercial center. Includes comments on discriminatory legislation, prewar Japan-American relations. World War II removal and incarceration, camp conditions, wartime repatriation …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-56/

av An Oral History with Seiko Ishida (ddr-csujad-29-11)

Retired Kibei teacher recounts samurai parents' background and their immigration to Seattle, Washington; socioeconomic composition of Seattle's Japanese community; earlier teacher training; prewar stays in Japan as a child and as a tutor in a missionary family; experiences as a teacher in the wartime resettlement in New York; and postwar return to Los Angeles. This oral …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-11/

doc Letter to Larry Tajiri from Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-462)

Margaret Anderson sending an advance copy of a piece by Grace Cable Kercher.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-338-462/

doc Alien Registration Receipt Card (ddr-densho-493-14)

Alien registration receipt card ("Form AR-3") for Buichiro Itabashi, containing his registration number, issued after the 1940 Alien Registration Act (known as the Smith Act) and mailed to his P.O. box in Auburn, Washington. Signed by Director of Registration, Earl G. Harrison.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-493-14/

doc Speech by Morio L. Fukuto, Associate Justice, Court of Appeals, to the Poston II reunion, August 29, 1987 (ddr-csujad-55-1872)

Transcription of a speech given by Morio Fukuto at the Poston II Reunion. Covers the reunion theme of paying tribute to the issei, discriminatory citizenship laws, history of prejudice towards Japanese in the United States, history of Japanese farmers in California, attitudes towards nisei, and the coram nobis movement. See this object in the California State …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1872/

doc Opinion (War Relocation Authority), no. 82 (September 8, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1673)

Report and analysis from Philip M. Glick, Solicitor, War Relocation Authority of Oregon alien land laws and individuals of Japanese ancestry. Covers a summary and discussion of the Oregon alien land laws. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1675

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1673/

doc Japanese immigration: the California point of view (ddr-csujad-55-364)

Pamphlet describing perspectives on Japanese immigration to California including economics, assimilation, tensions, "kankodan" or "picture brides," birth rates, "Gentleman's Agreement", rights, and regulations. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0366

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-364/

California and her less favored minorities: a study in the background of the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast (ddr-csujad-55-1648)

doc California and her less favored minorities: a study in the background of the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast (ddr-csujad-55-1648)

Historical narrative by Ruth E. McKee, WRA Historian discussing California statehood, early immigration to California, race and racism, Chinese immigration to California, Japanese immigration to California, attitudes towards Japanese, laws and legislation, and a chronology of events related to California immigration. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1650

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1648/

doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 15, No. 735 (February 13, 1942) (ddr-densho-96-770)

Selected article titles: "League Will Omit September Confab" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hang-Overs" (p. 3), "Extension Given in Filing Forms Here Till Feb. 28" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-96-770/

doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 651 (July 6, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-686)

Selected article titles: "Registration Law Hits Many Aliens" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Rainiers League Leader" (p. 3), "Great Japan Day Playland Outing Will Lure Crowd" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-96-686/

doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 641 (April 27, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-676)

Selected article titles: "Anti-Alien Bills Meet with Rebuff" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Western Stars Upset Fife Nippons by Score of 11 to 4" (p. 3), "Seattle Chapter to Give Banquet for School Folk" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-96-676/

doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 14, No. 691 (April 12, 1941) (ddr-densho-96-726)

Selected article titles: "Kinder Treatment for Aliens Looms" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Courier Baseball" (p. 3), "Seattle Library Views Future on 50th Anniversary" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-96-726/

doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 12, No. 602 (July 29, 1939) (ddr-densho-96-637)

Selected article titles: "Gov. Olson Blasts Anti-Relief Bill" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hang-Overs" (p. 3), "Chapters Set to Stage Big Picnic at Beach Sunday" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-96-637/

doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 655 (August 3, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-690)

Selected article titles: "Plan Speeds Work for Registration" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "To Enter National Championship" (p. 3), "Priest Host for JACL Chapter at Historic Mission" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-96-690/