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img Indonesians boarding a train in San Francisco for the immigration detention facility at Crystal City, Texas (ddr-csujad-27-7)

Caption found with the image reads, "Here are the Indonesians boarding the Southern Pacific train, San Francisco, bound for Crystal City, Texas." This image shows a line of men with suitcases waiting to get on the train. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ind_01_01_009

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 33 No. 9 (September 8, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-36)

Selected article titles: "Grand Jury Indicts First Evacuee For Claims Fraud. San Francisco Man Faces Trial for Alleged Attempt To Defraud Under Claims Act" (p. 1), "JACL Sends Formal Protest To Guatemala Ambassador on Ban Against Visas for Nisei" (p. 1), "Immigration Service Grants Reentry Permit to Issei on Basis of Recent Amendment" (p. 8).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 34 No. 17 (April 26, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-17)

Selected article titles: "House Passes Walter Omnibus Measure. Proposal to Remove Race Bars From Nation's Immigration Laws Wins by Large Margin" (p. 1), "No Decision Yet by California On Appeal to State Court Ruling Outlawing Anti-Alien Land Law" (p. 1), "Discuss Possible Intervention By State Department on Problems of Japanese Group" (p. 2).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 34 No. 26 (June 28, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-26)

Selected article titles: "Report 600 Nisei Casualties in Korea War" (p. 1), "U.S. Japanese Win Long Fight for Citizenship. Congress Overrides President's Veto of Walter-McCarran Omnibus Immigration Bill" (p. 1), "Anti-Defamation League Finds Growing Awareness of Menace of Organized Intolerance" (p. 2), "Mainland Veterans of 442nd Invited to Reunion in 1953" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol 68, No. 8 (February 21, 1969) (ddr-pc-41-8)

Select article titles: "Jerry Enomoto: Understanding Students" (p. 1); "Immigration Centennial Dinner After Monument Dedication Set" (p. 1); "San Francisco JACL members volunteer as grade school tutors; more help requested" (p. 2); "'Peace at Home and Abroad: Prime 1969 Objective'" (p. 3) "Chicago JACL Credit Union striving for $500,000 mark for student loans" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 59, Vol. 5 (July 31, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-31)

Selected article titles: "Kido's 36-Year Leadership in JACL Commemorated" (p.1, 4), "Naturalized Citizen Wife of Serviceman in Hawaii Denied Voter Registration" (p.1), "Defeat of Prop. 14 Principle Agenda Item for NC-WNDC" (p.1), "Nisei Teacher Pilots Training Class Among Youngsters in N.Y.'s Harlem" (p.1), "Immigration Legislation" (p.2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 51, No. 11 (September 9, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-37)

Select article titles: "JACL accepts Governor's call to attend senior citizens talk" (p.1); "Heartache and hardship immigration cases cited in JCCA brief evoke sympathy from Canada legislators and prime minister" (p.1); "Issei widow nearly deported to Mexico saved by CL plea" (p.3); "Magnuson hits alien land law as undemocratic" (p.8)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2121, Vol. 92, No. 2 (January 16, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-2)

Selected article titles: "Carter names Marutani to EO9066 study (redress) panel" (p. 1), "JACL to contest use of 'JAP' as U.S. trademark" (p. 1), "L.A. county civil service finds Nisei job bias victim" (p. 1), "Asian-white hostility flares at Portland high school campus" (p. 1), "400 attend L.A. meet on immigration issues" (p. 7).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 122, No. 4 (February 16-29, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-4)

Selected article titles: "JACL Convention: Host City San Jose Features Japantown Rich with History" (p. 1), "In Indiana, Immigration, Internment Exhibit Gets Good Reviews" (p. 4), "'Brick-Laying' Dedicates Japanese American Museum's Phase II Pavilion Site in Los Angeles" (p. 5), and "Books: Sugihara's Heroism in Saving Jews Chronicled by His Widow" (p. 7).

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Narrator Michael Yoshii

Sansei male. Born August 10, 1952, in Berkeley, California. Graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in social welfare. Attended the Pacific School of Religion and graduated with an MDiv. Appointed full-time pastor to the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, California, in 1988. Served as pastor for more than thirty years, leading the church's …

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doc Naturalization certificate (ddr-densho-23-15)

Certificate of naturalization for Bunshiro Tazuma, aged seventy. The landmark case Ozawa v. United States (United States Supreme Court, 1922) barred the Issei from becoming American citizens even though many had been permanent residents since the late 1800s. In 1952, the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed, and the Issei were finally allowed to become citizens.

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 16 (April 22, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-16)

Selected article titles: "More Nisei Witnesses Face House Contempt Charges in Hawaii Communism Inquiry" (p. 1), "McCarren Omnibus Bill Will Erase Race Restrictions from Nation's Immigration Laws" (p. 1), "Ennis Reveals 3-Point JACL Program to Expedite Claims. Seek Acceleration, Simplification of Claims Adjudication" (p. 1), "Hail Issei Integrity as 120 Complete Citizenship Course" (p. 7).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 9 (August 30, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-35)

Selected article titles: "California Official's Decision Not to Appeal Masaoka Case Marks End of State Statute" (p. 1), "Immigration Service Delays Issei Filing for Citizenship Until New Forms Available" (p. 1), "Initiate Concerted Campaign To Encourage Hawaii's Issei To Seek U.S. Naturalization" (p. 3), "No Decision Reached as Yet On Moving JACL's National Headquarters to West …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 37 No. 26 (December 25, 1953) (ddr-pc-25-52)

Selected article titles: "Utah senator sees no immediate change in Immigration statute" (p. 1), "Active D.C. community Issei leader naturalized, ready to join JACL" (p. 1), "Historical documentation of 33,000 Nisei in World War II prepared by selective service" (p. 2), "'American-ness' of Island Nisei" (p. 3), "Visiting Fresno congressman views economic problems of postwar Japan" …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 45, No. 10 (September 6, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-36)

Select article titles: "'Family hardship' immigration bill OK" (p. 1); "85th Congress in Historic Passage of Civiil Rights Measure" (p. 2); "Formal complaint alleging 200 L.A. frims discriminate in employement lodged by ADL" (p. 6); "White House official Max Rabb to address Tokyo Nisei parley" (p. 8); "Ex.-Oregon Governor Scores Evacuation as 'Unconstitutional'" (p. 8).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 50, No. 13 (March 25, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-13)

Select article titles: "Ike's immigration bill hailed as 'step in right direction'" (p. 1); "JACL Accepts Invitation for White House Conference on Youth" (p.1); "Son of Shinto priest becomes convert of Judaism after lifetime study of Old Testament, assisted Jewish refugees flee Nazi terror" (p.3); "Yoshino, Masaoka named delegates to civil liberties meet" (p.8)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 62, No. 24 (June 17, 1966) (ddr-pc-38-24)

Select article titles: "Stronger civil rights bill sought in wake of Meredith shooting" (p. 1); "Single-family home owners not in real estate business and receive no public assistance may discriminate" (p. 1); "Ex-Japan princess sums up 2-year stay in U.S., lauds women's independence" (p. 4); "New Law Recalls Hawaii as Immigration Policy Molder" (p. 6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 58, Vol. 1 (January 3, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-1)

Selected article titles: "West L.A. JACL Concludes First Year Under Woman Presidebt" (p.1), "Senate Subcommittee to Consider Two Proposals for Changes in Immigration Law" (p.1), "Los Angeles Slated for Study Project of Area Redevelopment Administration" (p.1), "1963 in Retrospect" (p.2), "Kawakita Returns to Japan, Grateful to President Kennedy for Release Order" (p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 61, No. 15 (October 8, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-41)

Selected article titles: "President Signs Immigration Act Repealing Asian Quotas" (p.1, 3), "CREA Lauded by Commissioner Gordon for Effortts to Fight Housing Discrimination" (p.1), "Final Evacuation Claim Approved by U.S. Court of Claims" (p.1), "PNWDC Prepping for Third Try at Land Law Repeal" (p.1, 4), "History Project: "Contributions of Pacific Northwest Issei" (p.4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 60, No. 24 (June 11, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-24)

Selected article titles: "Passage of Immigration Bill (S 500) Urged by JACL at Senate Hearing" (p.1-3), "History Project: Issei Coal Miners of Carbon County, Utah" (p.1), "Councilman Wing Luke" (p.2), "Voting Rights Amendment May Aid Hawaiians" (p.3), "Role of the Women's Auxilliary" (p.3), "Buddhist Women Attend International Conference in New York" (p.6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 84, No. 5 (February 11, 1977) (ddr-pc-49-5)

Selected article titles: "Reactions to Ariyoshi Plan to Control Immigration Mixed" (p.1), "Colorado Issei Pioneer: Naoichi Hokasono" (p.1), "Anti-Evacuation Stance of Justice Dept. Recalled" (p.1-2), "For E-1' Visa Immigrant Students in Washington: Resident Tuition Privilege Aim" (p.3), "Summary of Planning Conference on Nisei Retirement" (p.4), "Pardon for Iva Toguri" (p.5).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2041 (May 4, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-17)

Selected article titles: "Omission of Asians 'Glaring Oversight' on U.S. List Designating 'Minorities'" (pp. 1-2, 11), "First Friday Feature: Angel Island Immigration Station Dedicated" (p. 3), "Japan Today: May 4-10 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week" (p. 6), and "West Coast Nisei Farmers in 1942, if Given a Free Choice, Wanted to Remain" (p. 10).

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doc Gila News-Courier Vol. III No. 152 (August 10, 1944) (ddr-densho-141-308)

Selected article titles: "Cleveland: Nisei Establish Church Group" (p. 1), "Tule Hunger Strikers End Eleven Day Fast" (p. 1), "Center Jobs May Be Put Under Priority System" (p. 1), "Portland: Japanese Graves Pillaged Twice" (p. 3), "Tule Boy Killed by Dump Truck" (p. 4), "Twenty Japanese Linguists Needed at Stanford University" (p. 5), "No Immigration Canada …

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doc Alien Registration Act announcement (ddr-densho-385-2)

A handwritten copy of an order by the commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. The handwritten order includes Japanese translations of certain English words. Fujio Morikawa kept a journal while incarcerated at Lordsburg U.S. Army internment camp. In his journal included translations of letters, news articles, and announcements; notes on English grammar and mathematics; essays on different …

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doc Letter from Robert Cashman to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-288)

Letter of support for Ai Chih Tsai's application for entrance into the United States. Chicago Theological Seminary can offer Ai Chih Tsai a position on the clerical staff at $1800/year

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Narrator Michael Yoshii