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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 27 No. 11 (September 11, 1948) (ddr-pc-20-36)

Selected article titles: "Special Victory Convention Issue" (p. 1), "Panel Experts Urge JACL Join in Wider Program for Civil and Racial Rights" (p. 2), "Citizens League to Assist in Filing Evacuee Claims" (p. 3), "JACL Pledges Organization to Program for Naturalization" (p. 3), "Masaoka Pledges JACL ADC To Fight for Naturalization At Recognition Dinner" (p. 6).

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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. 29 No. 24 (December 10, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-49)

Selected article titles: "California Civic Unit Groups Urge Passage of Legislation for Equality in Naturalization" (p. 1), "California's Alien Land Statute Challenged in New Suit Filed By Members of Masaoka Family" (p. 1), "Nisei Doctor Studies Children Who Survived Hiroshima Blast" (p. 1), "Anti-Negro Threats by Chicago Crowd Told by Nisei CIO Leader" (p. 2).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 21 (November 25, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-47)

Selected article titles: "Walter Resolution Passage Heads JACL ADC's Agenda for Coming 'Lame Duck' Session" (p. 1), "California Court Plans Hearings in Test Cases. Alien Land Statute Under Attack in Masaoka, Fujii Cases" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans Among Victims of Coast Area Floods" (p. 1), "Strandees Regain Citizenship Despite Participation in 1946 Japanese General Election" (p. …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 14 (April 8, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-14)

Selected article titles: "Possibility for Early Senate Action on Walter Measure Looms Through Calendar Call" (p. 1), "32 Taken Ill After Party in California City. Eleven Hospitalized of Food Poisoning at Housewarming Fete" (p. 1), "Necessity of Mass Evacuation Debated at College Symposium" (p. 2), "Masaoka Cites Need for Nisei Organization in Coast Speech" (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. 71, No. 3 (July 17, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-28)

Selected article titles: "High convention cost scrutinized" (p. 1), "Joe Grant Masaoka dead" (p. Reparations bill sought by NC-WNDC for all Japanese American evacuees" (p. 1), "'Orientals' added to education code" (p. 1), "JACL ethnic heritage committee proposed in Ishimaru report" (p. 4), "Check police behavior, not suspect's" (p. 5), "Need for Asian American Studies" (p. …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 20 (May 19, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-20)

Selected article titles: "Dr. Miyakawa Regards 'Issei Story' Task as Chance to Do Job That Has to Be Done" (p. 1), "Calif. Assembly Passes Two Major Civil Rights Bills: Housing, Licenses: FIPC to Enforce New Housing Bill, If Signed" (p. 1), and "Lobbyist Masaoka Urges Japan Take Firmer Stand to Resist Trade Controls in America" (p. …

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vh Ben Kuroki - Shige Kuroki Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-122-21-8)

Witnessing the arrest of Mike Masaoka on December 7, 1941

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily …

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vh James Omura Interview II Segment 7 (ddr-densho-122-11-7)

Opinion of the Japanese American Citizens League and Mike Masaoka

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily …

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vh Fred Okrand Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-122-15-6)

Thoughts on Mike Masaoka and the Japanese American Citizens League

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-15-6/

doc Statement opposing the inclusion of the words and name of Mike Masaoka on the Memorial in Washington D.C. (ddr-densho-122-602)

By William Hohri, personal information redacted.

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 4 (January 23, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-112)

Selected article titles: "Heart Mountain Shivers; Mercury Drops to 28 Below Zero" (p. 1), "Life Takes Pictures of Center Life" (p. 1), "Mike Masaoka Postpones Visit Here" (p. 1), "Draft Registrants Must Notify Local Board of Addresses" (p. 2), "Don't Rub Snow Into Frostbites" (p. 2), "Editorial: Welcome to Heart Mountain, Senator Reynolds!" (p. 4), "English …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 3 (January 25, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-4)

Selected article titles: "Reveal Gen. Marshall's Support of Nisei. Disclose Secretary of State's Wartime Action to Restore Citizen Rights to Group" (p. 1), "Mike Masaoka Reviews Nisei Problems in Conference With White House Representative" (p. 1), "Portland Drops Wartime Ban on Issei Business" (p. 2), "Protest Threat To Oust Nisei From House. 150 Persons Attend Mass …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 12 (March 29, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-13)

Selected article titles: "Seek Housing for Evacuees in Trailer Camp. 840 Returnees Still Occupy Units at Winona FPHA Camp" (p. 1), "Two Die, Several Reported Ill At Walla Walla Labor Camp. Deaths Attributed To Food Poisoning By County Coroner" (p. 1), "ACLU Supports Bill to Stay Deportation of 200 Japanese" (p. 2), "Masaoka Seeks Rescinding of …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 32 No. 3 (January 20, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-3)

Selected article titles: "Renunciants Must Prove Loyalty, Says U.S. Court. Appellate Tribunal Reverses Lower Court Ruling, Clouds Status of Tule Lake Group" (p. 1), "Rep. Miller Asks Restoration of Seniority Lost by Nisei Postal Workers During War" (p. 2), "Issei Worker Wins Damages from Railroad" (p. 2), "Masaoka Test Case. Brother Ben Gave His Life for …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 11 (September 13, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-37)

Selected article titles: "Record Total of 51 Nisei File for Political Offices in Hawaii Biennial Elections" (p. 1), "Issei Need Not Fear New Presidential Commission on Immigration, Says Masaoka" (p. 1), "Tule Lake Returnees Met Cold Reception in Nippon" (p. 2), "Discuss Japanese Translation of Book on Mass Evacuation" (p. 3), "Proxy Marriages Unrecognized in U.S. …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 29 No. 27 (December 31, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-52)

Selected article titles: "Walter Resolution Will Be Primary Objective of ADC's Legislative Drive in 1950" (p. 1), "Chick Sexing is Big Business: Nisei Pioneer a New Industry" (p. 2), "Look Southward, Sansei. The Deep South and the Southwest Offer New Vistas for Young Japanese Americans" (p. 3), "People of Japanese Ancestry in U.S. United in Support …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 19 (May 14, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-19)

Selected article titles: "Issei Citizenship Proposal Introduced by Rep. Walter. Resolution Will Eliminate Race as Requirement Under U.S. Naturalization Procedure" (p. 1), "Masaoka Stresses Urgent Needed For Fair Employment Measure" (p. 3), "Three Strandees Seek to Regain Property Vested by U.S. in War" (p. 8), "Tule Lake Renunciants Return to Testify at Court Hearing. Kawakmi, Kuromi …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 36 No. 12 (March 20, 1953) (ddr-pc-25-12)

Selected article titles: "Sen. Watkins introduces bill to restore strandee citizenship" (p. 1), "Boundaries of new State of Hawaii delay Senate move" (p. 1), "Nisei strandee teaching in Japanese school kept U.S. status, judge rules" (p. 2), "Masaoka chairman of nat'l confab on civil libereis" (p. 3), "Canada nationality laws permit return of voting or drafted …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 38 No. 15 (April 9, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-15)

Selected article titles: "White House asks payment of larger claims" (p. 1), "Nisei loyalty in statehood debate lauded by Farrington" (p. 1), "Potential disloyalty among Orientals in Hawaii charged by Adm. Zacharias if statehood granted; Masaoka in firm reply" (p. 1), "Alien fined for failure to report address in January; Issei cautioned" (p. 5), "Assimilation of …

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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

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vh James Omura Interview I Segment 9 (ddr-densho-122-4-9)

The Japanese American Citizens League before World War II, meeting Mike Masaoka

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, …

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vh Randy Senzaki Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-122-18-4)

Thoughts on Mike Masaoka; dealing with controversy as national director of the JACL

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-18-4/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 26 No. 2 (January 10, 1948) (ddr-pc-20-2)

Selected article titles: "Defense Counsel in Tokyo Nisei Case Charges Use of Force by Army Investigators" (p. 1), "Masaoka Seeks White House Support for ADC Proposals" (p. 1), "JACL Files Supreme Court Brief in Oriental American Restrictive Covenant Cases" (p. 1), "Alien Property Office Explains Regulations for Recovery Of Claims on Japanese Banks" (p. 2), "Japanese …

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