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For Tolerance; Japanese Americans

Letters to the editor regarding racism towards Japanese-Americans and citizenship

Japanese Group Schedule Picnic

Plans were being made by the Japanese Students Club to hold a picnic at Five Mile Lake.

Japanese Typewriter Mastered by Professor

Professor Henry Tatsumi of the University of Washington demonstrated a Japanese typewriter that he was using to complete his manuscript for his Oirental Studies students.

The Nisei

Article and pictures show Nisei life and how western the second-generation Japanese are.

Future American Defenders Report to Uncle Sam

Photo of men lining up to register for Selective Service at a fire station in Seattle. Photo noted the different racial extractions of the men.

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Personal hand-written letter from Seattle Mayor John Dore thanking Clarence Arai, Seattle Public Library board member, for the flowers he sent on the occasion of Mayor Dore's father's death.

Race Prejudice

Letter to the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer decries the opposition to the appointment of Clarence Arai to the Seattle Public Library board.

An Evacuation Racial Problem

Photo of Nellie Woo, a Japanese American married to a Chinese American man, who has two daughters and will have to evacuate with her two half-Chinese, half-Japanese daughters to an internment camp.

Evacuation to Part Chinese, Jap Family

Article on a family whose mother is Japanese American and married to a Chinese American and their two daughters. She and the children will be evacuated to an internment camp while her husband will have to remain.

We Point with Pride

Editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of 4/4/1942 praising the efficiency of the evacuation of the Japanese on Bainbridge Island and also the results of a court case against a Japanese American defendant who was found innnocent.