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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 17, (October 26, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-42)

Select article titles: "Seattle Mayoral Campaign Begins to See the, Smear Tactic Charged" (p.1); "'42 Evacuation Credit for Cal. Teachers Signed" (p.1); "JACL Building Fund Drive: Top Support Continues" (p.1); "Vietnamese Americans: Unloved War Orphans" (p.2); "Matsunaga to Be Honored Nov. 2 at Honolulu Testimonial Dinner" (p.3); "Milwaukee JACL Makes Good Its Pledge of $4,000" (p.4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 50, No. 14 (April 1, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-14)

Select article titles: "Yokohama student selected as JACL Scout for Jamboree" (p.1); "Gov't invitation for naturalized citizens goes nation-wide" (p.1); "Call in Nisei toxicologist when arsenic found in coffee drunk by Seattle workers" (p.2);

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 62, No. 7 (February 16, 1966) (ddr-pc-38-7)

Select article titles: "Greater participation of Nisei in gov't urged at San Jose JACL installation" (p.1); "Immigration history of U.S. told in brief in forthcoming 'This Week'" (p.1); "South Seattle Farming Areas May Be Boeing's" (p.1).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 82, No. 13 (April 2, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-13)

Selected article titles: "'Tokyo Rose' Accusers Told to Lie" (pp. 1-2), "Seattle JACL Committee Started Move to Eliminate E.O. 9066" (p. 1), "Editorials: Supreme Court Decisions" (p. 2), and "'Go for Broke!' vs. 'Farewell to Manzanar'" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 64, No. 18 (May 5, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-19)

Selected article titles: "Bills to watch in Sacramento" (p. 1), "JAL summer fellowship recipients picked by JACL" (p. 1), "Mansfield questions Evacuation" (p. 1), "Japanese 2.5% of Seattle public school population" (p. 2), "Li'l Tokio faces big decision" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 60, No. 26 (June 25, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-26)

Selected article titles: "Seattle JACL's Human Rights Series Ended" (p.1), "Jr. JACL Interim Councillors Prepare for Major '66 Stand" (p.1-2), "Virginia Court to Test Validity of Its Anti-Miscegination Law" (p.1), "Immigration Bill Slowdown" (p.2), "Non-Discrimination Policies Called for in Seattle Mayor's Order" (p.3), "Yem Claimants File Appeal to Reverse District Court Rule" (p.6).

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Narrator Ray Ishii

In this interview, Ana Tanaka and Joy Misako St. Germain led the conversation with Ray Ishii who served as the Seattle JACL President in 1994. Ray was first involved with JACL in the late 80's and early 90's encouraged by community leader Al Sugiyama and others, including Janice Deguchi and Joy Misako St. Germain, who encouraged …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1039/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 37 No. 13 (September 25, 1953) (ddr-pc-25-39)

Selected article titles: "Aiso first Mainland Nisei named judge, to L.A. municipal bench" (p. 1), "JACL to join gov't fight on job bias" (p. 1), "Largest mass swear-in rites of Hawaii includes 136 Japanese" (p. 1), "Naturalization barred to Issei who requested draft exemption by alienage" (p. 1), "Seattle JACL honors 151 naturalized Issei at 'I …

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doc An Appeal for Action to Obtain Redress for the World War II Evacuation and Imprisonment of Japanese Americans (ddr-chijacl-1-13)

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doc The Northwest Times Vol. 2 No. 62 (July 24, 1948) (ddr-densho-229-129)

"One-Year Enlistments Commence for 18-Year-Olds at Seattle Armed Forces Recruiting Office" (pg. 1), "Canada Plans Special Body for Loss Aid" (pg. 1), "National JACL Office Candidates for 1948-1950 Term Announced; To Be Inducted at Utah Convention" (pg. 1)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 58, No. 19 (November 8, 1963) (ddr-pc-35-45)

Selected article titles: "JACL Pledges Effort to Push for Stronger Civil Rights Bill" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: Compromise Civil Rights Bill" (p. 2), "Congressional Hearings for Braceros Urged" (p. 3), and "Seattle Mayor Urges Negroes to Call Off Vote Boycott Plans" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 11 (March 21, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-11)

Selected article titles: "National Dialogue: National Advocacy" (p. 1), "Pacific Southwest District Council: Demand Board Probe of Executives" (pp. 1-2), "By the Board: The Changing JACL, and How!" (pp. 2-3), and "Multi-Ethnic Programs Enhance S.E. Seattle Secondary Schools" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol.121, No. 7 (October 6-19, 1995) (ddr-pc-67-19)

Selected article titles: "No Apology for 'Slanty' Eye Reference to Nomo" (pp. 1, 6), "ORA Meets with JACL for Redress Update" (pp. 1, 6), "Evacuation Stories Highlight Topaz Event" (p. 5), and "MIS Postwar Phase Topic of Seattle Reunion" (pp. 7, 11).

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img Seattle School District redress supporters (ddr-densho-10-14)

A resolution was passed on April 25, 1984, to seek redress for Nisei who lost their jobs with the Seattle School District during World War II due to their Japanese ancestry. Shown here are former school district employees and supporters of that resolution. Front (top to bottom): Alice Kawanishi; Mako Nakagawa, past president of the JACL; …

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Narrator Joy Misako S. Germain

Ana Tanaka and Dr. Kyle Kinoshita led a conversation with Joy Misako St. Germain, detailing how she became involved with JACL and became a Seattle leader. Being one of just a few Japanese American families where she grew up, she felt a deep longing for a sense of community. Her love for Japanese American culture is …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 66, No. 11 (March 15, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-11)

Selected article titles: "Wartime Record Cited by Japan U.N. Envoy. New York JACLers Told Heroism Aided in U.S.-Japan Amity" (p. 1), "Hal Kim, Lois Yut top bowlers in JACL Nationals hosted by Seattle" (p. 1), "Rights program for NC-WN chapters being proposed" (p. 1), "Dayton JACL 'Operation Pink Petal' helps city win cleanest town trophy" (p. …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2156, Vol. 93, No. 12 (September 18, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-37)

Selected article titles: "Anti-JACL, anti-redress witnesses pepper CWRIC-Seattle" (p. 1), "NAACP's Wilkins challenged JACL forward on civil rights" (p. 1), "Aleuts uprooted by Japan forces, too" (p. 1), "Did the U.S. government believe the Nikkei were 'guilty' in 1941?" (p. 2), "Five-year program with Utah aged Nikkei coming to an end" (p. 3), "JACL raps British …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 85, No. 9 (August 26, 1977) (ddr-pc-49-33)

Selected article titles: "HUD Exempts Seattle Housing for Asian Elderly" (p.1), "Another 'Profile in Courage' Filed" (p.1-2), "Postwar Japanese American Marriages Still a Problem" (p.1), "Uwajimaya Schedules $1.5 Million Expansion" (p.3), "1977 JACL-Hayashi Law Awards Made" (p.4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 18 (May 11, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-18)

Select article titles: "Seattle Redress Workshop Draws Record Crowd"(p.1); "JACL Testifies on Employer Sanctions in Immigration Law"(p.1); "Bush Signs Bill Keeping Tabs on Hate Crimes Climb"(p.3); "Pacific American Ballet Theatre's 'Winter War' Ready for California Premiere"(p.5).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 73, No. 9 (August 27, 1971) (ddr-pc-43-34)

Selected article titles: "Nixon import surtax stuns west coast Nikkei traders" (p. 1), "More racist matters show up in Congress" (p. 1), "City Hall official asserts 'all Japanese sneaky, treacherous'" (p. 1), "JAL base at Napa irks PH vet" (p. 1), "Seattle JACL to celebrate 50th anniversary at Oct. 30 banquet" (p. 1), "Kenzo changes label, …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2142, Vol. 92, No. 23 (June 12, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-23)

Selected article titles: "NBC assures JACL its 'bad' reruns no go" (p. 1), "1st CWRIC hearings set July 14, 16 in DC" (p. 1), "Seattle redress witnesses tell it like it was during '42 removal" (p. 1), "Racist campaign alarms L.A. Times over Mike Woo's defeat" (p. 1), "Important papers, reports before Nat'l JACL board meeting" …

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Narrator Bill Tashima

In this interview, Ana Tanaka led a conversation with Bill Tashima. Bill spoke of his growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his early involvement with JACL as a youth participant, and his coming to the Pacific Northwest in the 1980's. Bill has extensive experience with Seattle JACL's advocacy, community outreach, civil rights and for ensuring the continuation …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1037/

vh Shosuke Sasaki Interview (ddr-densho-1000-78)

Issei male. Born March 26, 1912, in Yamaguchi ken, Japan. Immigrated to United States in 1919. Lived in Pomeroy, Washington, and Seattle, Washington, before World War II. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled in New York. As a member of the Newspaper Guild, led effort to eliminate pejorative …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 74, No. 20 (May 26, 1972) (ddr-pc-44-20)

Selected article titles: "Land-use Ordinance Requested to Keep Seattle Asian District" (p.1, 3), "ACLU Award to Cite JACL for Title II Repeal" (p.1, 3), "Calif. Law Barring Bilingual Aid at Poll Questioned as Suit Filed" (p.1, 3), "U.S. Dept. of Peace Advocated" (p.2).

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doc Letter to Perry Miyake from Lindbergh Sata and John Matsumoto (ddr-chijacl-1-18)

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