PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-sjacl-1-320

PARENT COLLECTION

Seattle JACL Newsletter Collection

DESCRIPTION

Newsletter covering the following topics: Shea Aoki asks for volunteers for the Cherry Blossom Festival; acknowledgement of Emi Somekawa, Puyallup Valley JACL, work on memorial. She organized Tacoma and Puyallup people, working through parent-teachers groups and Church groups got 15 pages of signatures. She has written newspaper articles and appeared on TV interviews. She went against the American Legion and the Remember Pearl Harbor committee; almost 200 runners for the DoR Fun Run; William Horhi (Chicago JACL) files class action suit is Federal District Court for Redress. Suit represents 25 claimants detailing 21 separate causes of actions.

CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Japanese American Citizens League, Seattle Chapter Records Collection, #0536

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