Japanese American Citizens' League
Organization
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Interviews with Japanese Americans in Utah
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1209
Abstract
The interviews with Japanese Americans in Utah (1984-1988) consists of transcripts of a series of interviews conducted with members of the Japanese community between 1984 and 1988. Common themes within the interviews are family life, work, religion, immigration experiences, discrimination, and relations with the Mormon establishment in Utah.
Dates:
1984-1988
Japanese American Citizens League audio-visual collection
Collection
Identifier: A0286
Abstract
The Japanese American Citizens League audio-visual collection (1926-1975) consists largely of black and white, silent 16mm films taken by Ogden resident Dr. Sanji Oda, who recorded parades, sporting events and other activities throughout Northern Utah as well as material specific to the Japanese American community and Oda's own family from the late 1920s through the 1930s. The colleciton also includes a 1927 newsreel and a 1975 audio recording of an appeal to obtain redress for the World War II...
Dates:
1926-1975; Majority of material found within 1927-1939
Japanese American Citizens League photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P1003
Abstract
The Japanese American Citizens League digital photograph collection contains materials realted to Japanese American Citizens League events, veterans, miners, railroad workers, and others.
Dates:
1927-2012
Japanese American relocation collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0144
Abstract
The Japanese American relocation collection (1941-1945) contain materials concerned with the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the Topaz Relocation Center, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Project. The collection contains correspondence, reports, statistics, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other related material. In 1942, after the Pearl Harbor Bombing, Americans of Japanese ancestry, living on the West Coast, were ordered to internment centers in...
Dates:
1941-1945
Alice Kasai papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1091
Abstract
The Alice Kasai papers (1911-2007) contain correspondence, reports, news clippings, articles, pamphlets, brochures, programs, awards, and newsletters related to the public life of this Utah writer and community activist. Alice Kasai (1916-2007), raised in a small town in rural Utah, saw her husband taken away by the FBI and incarcerated in an internment camp in the early days of World War II. She has been active in community affairs for more than 50 years. She has been affiliated with the...
Dates:
1911-2007
Alice Kasai photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P0442
Abstract
The Alice Kasai photograph collection contain photographs of the Kasai family, photographs of various Japanese-American activities in Utah, including photographs of Governors Rampton and Bangerter signing documents. The collection also contains slides of buildings taken during a visit to Kyoto, Japan.
Dates:
1930s-1990s
Henry Y. Kasai papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0149
Abstract
The Henry Y. Kasai papers (1907-1966) contain material relating to the personal and professional life of Henry Y. Kasai, a leader in Utah's Japanese American community. The bulk of the collection consists of the minutes, history, and president's files of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) of Salt Lake City, the formation of which Kasai initiated in 1935. Kasai was elected president of the Salt Lake JACL in 1960. Other materials include an autobiography, awards, degrees,...
Dates:
1907-1966
Mitsugi M. Kasai papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2550
Abstract
The Mitsugi M. Kasai papers (1918-2013) contain assorted documents related to Mr. Kasai's early life, his career in the United States Army and his participation in various Japanese-American organizations following his retirement.
Dates:
1927-2013
Mike M. Masaoka papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0656
Abstract
Mike M. Masaoka served as National Secretary (1941-1943) and Washington lobbyist (1945-1953) for the Japanese American Citizens' League. He was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II and served as president of the Japan-America Society. He was active in issues of immigration reform and compensation for victims of wartime internment. The collection includes scrapbooks, yearbooks, correspondence, court and congressional documents, articles, oral history transcripts, and...
Dates:
1931-1991
Tsutomu (Stormy) Mitsui papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2644
Abstract
The Tsutomu (Stormy) Mitsui papers (1940-1984) contain scrapbooks, greeting cards, notebooks, calendars, and personal memorabilia. Mitsui served in the United States Army in World War II. After the war he returned to Salt Lake City and operated the City Cafe.
Dates:
1940-1984