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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2046 (June 8, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-22)
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/
Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2049 (June 29, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-25)
doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2049 (June 29, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-25)
Selected article titles: "Wendy Seeks Public Support" (p. 1), "Dr. Edmund Jung Wins Bias Case" (p. 1), "13 Asians Cultures Featured at Heritage Week" (p. 3), and "Calif. Columnist Raps Hayakawa for Failing to Understand Redress" (p. 5).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-51-25/
Seattle JACL 1930 (ddr-densho-474-13)
img Seattle JACL 1930 (ddr-densho-474-13)
Group photo of Seattle JACL. Shiro Hashiguchi in back row, 10th from right
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-474-13/
Information concerning claims under the evacuation claims law (ddr-densho-430-85)
doc Information concerning claims under the evacuation claims law (ddr-densho-430-85)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-430-85/
Roy H. Matsumoto Interview Segment 92 (ddr-densho-1000-153-92)
vh Roy H. Matsumoto Interview Segment 92 (ddr-densho-1000-153-92)
Reflections on redress, the Japanese American Citizens League, and the resisters of conscience

Although Mr. Matsumoto does not identify himself as a Kibei (American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.), some of his life experiences are similar to those who do identify …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-153-92/
Testimony of Earl Nishimura (ddr-densho-67-139)
doc Testimony of Earl Nishimura (ddr-densho-67-139)
Written testimony of Earl Nishimura, President of the Honolulu, Hawaii, Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "The Hawaiian Experience." Personal information excised by Densho.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-67-139/
Opening remarks to JACL meeting (ddr-densho-345-73)
doc Opening remarks to JACL meeting (ddr-densho-345-73)
Frank Sato's opening remarks to a meeting of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) with other redress groups. He calls for the JACL and these redress groups to put aside their differences and work together to achieve the larger goal of the redress movement.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-345-73/
Seattle Japanese American Citizens League celebratory dinner after the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (ddr-densho-10-104)
img Seattle Japanese American Citizens League celebratory dinner after the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (ddr-densho-10-104)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-10-104/

Narrator Robert Moriguchi

Sansei male. Born November 11, 1931, in San Francisco, California. During World War II, removed to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, moved to Utah for a time before eventually returning to California and becoming a pharmacist. Served on the board of the Japanese American Citizens League and …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1007/
Pacific Citizen Collection (ddr-densho-121)
Collection Pacific Citizen Collection (ddr-densho-121)
This collection contains several issues of the Pacific Citizen, an English-language newspaper published by the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). The newspaper was first published in 1929, and became the JACL's official publication in 1932. For more information, please visit www.pacificcitizen.org.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-121/
Masaru Horiuchi Collection (ddr-densho-476)
Collection Masaru Horiuchi Collection (ddr-densho-476)
Collection is comprised of three legal briefs filed in San Francisco and Los Angeles by the Japanese American Citizens League concerning Alien and Citizen civil rights, in particular related to property and immigration status, and one transcript of hearings held on Washington, D.C.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-476/

Narrator Stanley N. Shikuma

Sansei male. Born December 2, 1953, in Brogan, Oregon. Grew up primarily in the Watsonville, California, area, where parents ran a farm. Exposed at an early age to activism and organized labor. Attended Stanford University and then moved to Seattle, Washington, and earned a nursing credential. Has joined and led several prominent Seattle-area taiko (Japanese drum) …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1009/
Letter from Chin to Ruby Schaar, February 15, 1979 (ddr-csujad-24-63)
doc Letter from Chin to Ruby Schaar, February 15, 1979 (ddr-csujad-24-63)
A letter from Chin to Ruby Schaar about redress issues. The author criticizes the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and also criticizes U.S. Senator S.I. Hayakawa for his public defense of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_04_005
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-63/
Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, October 24, 1990 (ddr-csujad-24-111)
doc Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, October 24, 1990 (ddr-csujad-24-111)
A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin in which she criticizes the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and particularly M.M. [Mike Mosaoka], for arguing that siblings of former Japanese American incarcerees should not be able to receive redress checks. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_08_013
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-111/

Narrator Karen Yoshitomi

Sansei female. Born 1962 in Spokane, Washington. Father was born in British Columbia, Canada, and mother was born in Thomas, Washington. Grew up in the Tacoma, Washington, area, before eventually moving to Portland, Oregon, and then Seattle, Washington. Graduated from the University of Washington. Became regional director for the Japanese American Citizens League, and then Executive …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1017/
JACL emergency meeting minutes (ddr-densho-274-26)
doc JACL emergency meeting minutes (ddr-densho-274-26)
Minutes of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) National Board emergency meeting held on March 8-10, 1942 in San Francisco, CA. Among the topics discussed: JACL stance on mass removal, budget review, reports from JACL committees and district chapters and Mike Masaoka's controversial "branding" statement.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-274-26/
American nightmare postcard (ddr-csujad-55-161)
img American nightmare postcard (ddr-csujad-55-161)
Postcard of the lithograph, American Nightmare, by Roger Leyonmark. Image originally published by Cleveland Plain Dealer and presented to the Japanese American Citizens League in 1983. Verso includes title, artist, publisher, and copyright information. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0163
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-161/

Narrator Michael Asada

Sansei male. Born 1953 in Seabrook, New Jersey, where parents lived and worked following their incarceration experience during World War II. Grew up in Seabrook, participating in Japanese American community activities. Enrolled in the West Point military academy and spent military career in the armor corps, then became a deputy program executive for the army as …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1079/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-761)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-761)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading of correspondence regarding Issei being detained by authorities, relief funds frozen as some of the account holders were Issei, Japanese American Citizens' League seeking advise, and violence by Filipino Americans against Japanese Americans.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-761/
Letter from Harry and Yaso Ueno to Michi and Walter Weglyn, June 03, 1987 (ddr-csujad-24-44)
doc Letter from Harry and Yaso Ueno to Michi and Walter Weglyn, June 03, 1987 (ddr-csujad-24-44)
A letter from Harry and Yaso Ueno to Michi and Walter Weglyn in which the authors lament a United States Supreme Court and criticize Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) leader Mike Masaoka. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_02_003
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-44/
Letter from Lea Perry, January 7, 1944 (ddr-csujad-56-62)
doc Letter from Lea Perry, January 7, 1944 (ddr-csujad-56-62)
Letter from Lea Perry. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-01-060
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-56-62/
Ernest Besig Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1002-3-9)
vh Ernest Besig Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1002-3-9)
Meeting with Japanese American Citizens League representatives

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-3-9/
Hisaye Yamamoto Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1002-10-5)
vh Hisaye Yamamoto Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1002-10-5)
Description of the Japanese American Citizens League

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-10-5/
CSU Northridge Relief and Support Groups for Japanese Americans During World War II Collection (ddr-csujad-18)
Collection CSU Northridge Relief and Support Groups for Japanese Americans During World War II Collection (ddr-csujad-18)
Many non-governmental groups sought redress for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. This collection contains reports, correspondence, publicity, and other documents issued by the Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, YMCA, American Friends Service Committee, and Japanese American Citizens League. …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-18/
Pacific Citizen, Vol. 108, No. 10 (March 17, 1989) (ddr-pc-61-10)
doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 108, No. 10 (March 17, 1989) (ddr-pc-61-10)
Selected article titles: "Redress Called 'Stupid': Redress Injunction Filed by Vets' Group" (pp. 1-2), "'Tenure Now' Rally for Don Nakanishi Draws 300 at UCLA" (p. 1), "Cal Poly Pomona Students Protest Anti-Asian Attacks" (pp. 1-2), and "Politics: Attitudes Toward the Emperor" (p. 5).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-61-10/
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