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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 21 (November 27, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-46)
Selected article titles: "WRA Has No Right to Intern Nisei Citizens, Says Biddle. Attorney General Criticizes Wartime Treatment Accorded Japanese American Group. Relocation Camps Not Designed as Internment Centers, But as Refuge; Upholds Loyalty of Minority; Backs WRA Program of Resettlement" (p. 1), "War Department Reveals List Of Japanese Americans Hurt, Presumably on Italian Front" (p. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 8 (August 28, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-33)
Selected article titles: "CIO Union's Action Breaks Down 'Unwritten Law' Against Nisei in Federal Bureau" (p. 1), "Japanese American Combat Team Gets Special Insignia. New Shoulder Patch, Regimental Coat of Arms Approved For Nisei Outfit" (p. 1), "Roofs Damaged As Poston Hit By Windstorm" (p. 1), "Coast Evacuees May Be Embittered" (p. 2), "2000 Evacuees Now …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 18 (May 6, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-18)
Selected article titles: "Sen. Robertson 1000 Percent Wrong on Reports Regarding Repatriation, Says Hosokawa" (p. 1), "Washington Move Hints New Army Post for General DeWitt" (p. 1), "Supreme Court To Hear Test Of Evacuation" (p. 1), "Nisei Soldiers Condemn Japan Military Policy in Broadcast" (p. 1), "Native Sons Take Regan Case Challenging Nisei Citizenship Rights to …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 13 (October 2, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-38)
Selected article titles: "Hawaiians Regard Evacuation As 'Colossal Land-Grabbing Scheme,' San Joseans Told" (p. 1), "Suicide Attempt At Manzanar Fails" (p. 1), "President Roosevelt Urges Race Harmony To Win Conflict" (p. 1), "Losses in Centers from Fires Well Below National Average. Only 63 Fires Reported In Relocation Camps During 3-Month Period" (p. 8), "Suspect Asks For …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 12 (September 25, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-37)
Selected article titles: "President Roosevelt Commends Role of Japanese American In National War Effort" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans Guard Nazi Prisoners In Alabama Fields" (p. 1), "Ban on Coast Return Remains In Force, Says Gen. Emmons" (p. 1), "Topaz Child Killed When Hit by Truck" (p. 1), "Loyal Evacuees Defeat Segregants In Topaz Game" (p. 1), …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 25 (December 25, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-50)
Selected article titles: "Nisei Battalion Holds Advance Post, Says Correspondent" (p. 1), "California Agricultural Board Backs Japanese Americans. State Farm Group Opposes Continued Ban on Racial Grounds Against Evacuees" (p. 1), "Civil Liberties in Wartime: Test Cases May Be Necessary To Define Legal Rights of Japanese American Group" (p. 3), "Army Officials Decline Comment on Tule …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 22 (December 4, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-47)
Selected article titles: "34 Nisei Killed, 130 Injured on Italian Front. Names of 13 Dead Announced By War Department; Stimson Praises Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Coast Fair Play Committee Backs WRA Jurisdiction On Tule Segregation Camp. Immediate Separation Of Troublemakers Urged By California Group" (p. 2), "Communists Ask Fair Play for Loyal Evacuees. Urge Army Control …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 11 (March 18, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-11)
Selected article titles: "Role of Japanese Americans In Meeting War Manpower Problems Discussed in Denver" (p. 1), "Senate Group to Recommend Segregation in WRA Centers. Subcommittee Urges Speeding Depopulation of Centers to Avoid New 'Indian Problem'" (p. 1), "Wartime Civil Control Agency Dissolved by Lt. Gen. DeWitt" (p. 1), "Canadian Nisei Paper Believes Dispersal May Prove …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 11 (September 18, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-36)
Selected article titles: "Majority of Evacuees Loyal, Says President. FDR Reports to Congress on Progress of Relocation Agency Plans to Segregate Disloyal. President Roosevelt's Letter to Senate Stresses Belief in Loyalty of "Great Majority to Democratic Institutions of United States'" (p. 1), "Lieut. Gen. Emmons Succeeds General DeWitt as Commander of Western Defense Area" (p. 1), …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 26 (July 3, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-26)
Selected article titles: "JACL President Brands Dies Group Charges as Vicious Attack Upon Nisei Integrity" (p. 1), "Dies Group Opens Hearings on Japanese Americans. First Witness Asks for Segregation of Disloyal Elements in WRA Centers" (p. 1), "First Nisei Girl Accepted For Service in WAAC" (p. 1), "Luxury Foods Not Bought For Evacuees. Army Buyer Says …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 17 (October 30, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-42)
Selected article titles: "Nisei Troops Fight Along Road to Rome" (p. 1), "Volunteers from Other WRA Centers Called to Save Crops Endangered by Tule 'Strike.' Loyal Evacuees Being Transported to California To Harvest Crops; Passive Refusal to Work at Segregation Camp Reported by WRA Official" (p. 1), "U.S. Acts to Project Evacuee Family from Farm Swindle. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 20 (May 20, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-20)
Selected article titles: "Supreme Court Upholds Nisei Citizenship" (p. 1), "WRA Centers Recognized As Mistake, Says Myer; Relocation to be Speeded" (p. 1), "Nisei Soldier is Reported War Prisoner of Japanese" (p. 1), "No Race is 'Unassimilable' Says Vancouver Columnist" (p. 2), "Conference on Resettlement Convened in New York City" (p. 3), "Hawaii's Nisei May Volunteer …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 5 (August 7, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-30)
Selected article titles: "California Chinese Americans Ask Fair Play for U.S. Nisei" (p. 1), "Leupp Not Prison Or Concentration Camp, Says Best" (p. 1), "Plan Exchange of U.S., Japan Nationals Soon. Repatriation Ship Will Take 1500 Persons To Porguguese India" (p. 1), "Evacuee Property Problems Considered by Dillon Myer During Los Angeles Visit" (p. 2), "Evacuees …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 23 (December 11, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-48)
Selected article titles: "Military 'Fluke' Gave Army's Japanese American Battalion Chance to Fight on Italy Front" (p. 1), "Report Rivers Evacuee Shot By Army Sentry. Refused to Answer Challenge of Soldier, Says WRA Official" (p. 1), "Japanese American Woman, Wife of Chinese, Receives Permission to Return Home. Reported First Nisei To Win Right to Reenter Seattle …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 19 (May 18, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-19)
Selected article titles: "Supreme Court Hears Nisei Test Cases. Yasui, Hirabayashi Appeals Challenge Constitutionality Of Evacuation of U.S. Citizens" (p. 1), "Senate Committee Reports on Relocation, Urging Release Of Loyal Evacuees from Centers" (p. 1), "Hawaii's Food Raised Largely By Japanese" (p. 1), "Masaoka Will Appear Before House Hearing" (p. 1), "New Born Baby Confounds Coast …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 4 (January 28, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-4)
Selected article titles: "Army Announces Japanese American Unit for Combat Service Overseas. Voluntary Induction Procedure To Be Set Up to Enlist Nisei In Wartime Relocation Centers" (p. 1), "Riot Leaders Segregated at Camp in Utah" (p. 1), "Masaoka Volunteers for Service with New Nisei Battalion" (p. 1), "U.S. Attorney General Doubts Need for Mass Evacuation" (p. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 14 (April 8, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-14)
Selected article titles: "U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Review Nisei Test Cases" (p. 1), "Fire College For Girls Started At Manzanar" (p. 1), "WRA Official Reports 600 Pieces of Equipment Unused" (p. 1), "Sen. Wallgren Proposes New Plan for Supervision, Control Of Evacuees in WRA Centers" (p. 3), "Evacuated Farms Continue to Produce, Says WRA Official" …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 17 (April 29, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-17)
Selected article titles: "Mrs. Roosevelt Urges Release of Loyal Nisei. First Lady Visits Gila River Center, Finds No Evidence of Coddling of Evacuees By WRA" (p. 1), "National JACL to File Briefs in Evacuation Test Cases Before U.S. Supreme Court" (p. 1), "Leupp Camp To Be Used in Segregation" (p. 1), "WRA Removes Nisei Farmers From …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 22 (June 3, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-22)
Selected article titles: "Myer Answers Charges Made by Dies Investigator Against WRA's Program of Relocation" (p. 1), "Korematsu Case Recommitted to Circuit Court" (p. 1), "War Department Allows Return to Pacific Coast of Few Nisei Civilians in Special Category" (p. 1), "Warren Signs Bill Designed to Prevent Nisei in Civil Service From Claiming Back Salaries" (p. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 3 (January 21, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-3)
Selected article titles: "New California Anti-Alien Law Gains Support" (p. 1), "Governor of Utah Denies Evacuees Being 'Pampered'" (p. 1), "Sen. Wallgren Introduces Bill To Transfer Evacuee Centers Back Under Army Jurisdiction" (p. 1), "Resettlement of Evacuees to Be Accelerated Under New WRA Job Placement Setup" (p. 1), "Relocation Centers Will Soon Be on Self-Sustaining Basis; …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 24 (June 17, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-24)
Selected article titles: "JACL Counsel Asks Fair Play For Loyal Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Myer Condemns 'Irresponsible' Statements by Dies Committee" (p. 1), California Refuses to Pay Unemployment Benefits To Evacuees" (p. 1), "Chester Rowell Terms Attack On Nisei 'Hysterical Nonsense'" (p. 1), "Dies Group Announces It Will Investigate 'Pacific Citizen'" (p. 3), "Evacuee Refutes Charge …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 3 (July 24, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-28)
Selected article titles: "Draft for Japanese Americans Is Recommended By Senate Military Affairs Committee" (p. 1), "WAC's to Open Ranks to Japanese American Women" (p. 1), "Manzanar College Accredited By State" (p. 1), "Relocation of Loyal Evacuees Will Be Continued, Declares War Mobilization Director" (p. 1), "Late Shelby Volunteers Drill Doubly Hard to 'Catch Up'" (p. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 4 (July 31, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-29)
Selected article titles: "WRA Names Tule Lake Camp As New Segregation Center. Size, Location and Farming Opportunities Cited Among Reasons for Choice of Site" (p. 1), "Nisei Women To Be Accepted In WAC Ranks" (p. 1), "Tule Lake Director Gives Classification Of Disloyal Group" (p. 2), "Nisei Involved in Street Fight Near Recovery" (p. 2), "Three …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 13 (April 1, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-13)
Selected article titles: "U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Legality of Evacuation of Nisei From West Coast. Yasui, Hirabayashi Test Cases Certified to High Tribunal By Circuit Court of Appeals" (p. 1), "President Roosevelt Sidesteps Question On Exclusion Act" (p. 1), "Negro Attorney Upholds Rights Of Nisei at West L.A. Forum" (p. 2), "Federal Justice Raps …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 2 (January 14, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-2)
Selected article titles: "Dies Committee Takes Credit For Japanese Evacuation" (p. 1), U.S. Court of Appeals Will Review Korematsu, Hirabayashi Test Cases on Evacuation" (p. 1), "California Legislators Open Attack on Nisei Citizenship" (p. 1), "Official Asks Segregation of Disloyal Group" (p. 2), "Reports of 'Coddling' Denied By Arkansas Regional Official" (p. 2), "WRA Outlines New …