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Matsuoka, (Jim) Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Records
SPC.2020.019  
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Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress 1979-2019

Arrangement

This series is arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents

The Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress includes internal documents, flyers, booklets, agendas, newsletters, and other documents.

Processing Information

The material was originally stored in binders, which have been disassembled for preservation purposes.
box 1, folder 1-2

NCRR 1979-1981

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 1980, 1979, and NCRR.

Scope and Contents

Includes news clippings, flyers, booklets, and other documents related to NCRR and redress.
box 1, folder 3-6

NCRR 1981

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes copied news clippings, letters, Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians documents, flyers, memos, Witness Preparation Information packets, and internal agreements.
box 1, folder 7-10

NCRR 1982 1982

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 1982 and Steering Comm.

Scope and Contents

Includes financial reports, copied news clippings, letters, flyers, Steering Committee notes, and other documents related to NCRR.
box 2, folder 1-5

NCRR 1983-1985 1983-1985

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 1985, 1984 1 of 2, 1984 2 of 2, 1983 1 of 2 and 1983 2 of 2.

Scope and Contents

Includes copied news clippings, flyers, booklets, letters, articles, financial information, and other documents related to NCRR.
box 2, folder 6-11

NCRR 1986-89 1986-1989

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 1989, 1988, 1986, 1987 1 of 2, 1987 2 of 2, and 1986 1 of 1.

Scope and Contents

Includes flyers news clippings, programs, letters, memos, booklets, bulletins, and other documents related to NCRR.
Folder 10 and Folder 11 include bulletins, correspndence to letterwriters, and reproduced newspaper articles related to the Hopi and Navajo peoples, and the Big Mountain (J.U.A.) Legal Defense/Offense Committee. Also included is BMLDOC Newsletter #5, July 1986.
box 3, folder 1-7

NCRR 1990-96 1990-1996

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, and 1990.

Scope and Contents

Includes news clippings, Day of Remembrance booklets, booklets, letters, mission statements, bylaws, and other documents.
box 3, folder 8-13

NCRR 1997-1999 1997-1999

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 1999, 1998, 1997.

Scope and Contents

Includes meeting agendas, flyers, booklets, first draft chronology for Speaking Out for Justice video, meeting agendas, copied newspaper clippings, booklets, and other documents.
box 4, folder 1-7

NCRR 2000-06 2000-2006

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000.

Scope and Contents

Includes meeting agendas, pamphlets, flyers, material for the video Stand Up for Justice, Banner newsletter, Day of Remembrance material, and other material.
box 4, folder 8-16

NCRR 2007- 2007-2015

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007.

Scope and Contents

Includes meeting agendas, funeral service booklets, Banner newsletters, copied newspaper clippings, Day of Remembrance booklets, flyers, booklets, and other material.
box 5, folder 1

NCRR 2016-2019

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes general meeting agendas, flyers, booklets, and Crosscurrent newsmagazine, Banner newsletters, Day of Remembrance booklets, and other material.
box 5, folder 2-4

NCRR Banners June 1981-2018

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes day of Remembrance flyers, postcards, and Banner, a newsletter of the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (July 1981-2016).
 

Subject Material 1967-2017

Scope and Contents

This series includes several subjects including Japanese Americans, incarceration camps, Japanese Latin Americans, Little Tokyo, Kijama, and Little Tokyo's People's Rights Organization.

Arrangement

This series is arranged by subject.

Processing Information

The material was originally stored in binders, which have been disassembled for preservation purposes.
box 6, folder 1-3

Little Tokyo Redevelopment May 15, 1970-June 1973

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes booklet titled: Redevelopment of Little Tokyo, 1970 - A Progress Report, Little Tokyo newsletter published by Mayor's Little Tokyo Community Development Advisory Committee (Vol. 1, No. 1, 3-5; Vol. 2, No. 1, 2; Vol. 3, No. 1-3; Vol. 4, No. 1), Little Tokyo Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 1; Vol. 2, No. 1-2; Vol. 3, No. 3), Komochi Newsletter (Vol. 2, Issue 6), One Year of Struggle "United, Together, We'll Never be Defeated by Committee against Nihonmachi Eviction, Cane Newsletter, Committee Against Nihonmachi Eviction" (Vol. 2, No. 2) and other material.
box 6, folder 5-6

LTPRO 1974-1977

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes LTPRO News (Vol. 1, No. 1), The San Francisco Journal (Vol. 2, No. 4), copied news clippings, staments, and other material.
box 6, folder 6

LT circa 1987-2007

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes copies news clippings and notes.
box 6, folder 7-11

Kajima 1967-2007

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: Kaijima 1-4, Kaijima 2-4, Kaijima 3-4, and Kaijima 4-4.

Scope and Contents

Includes newspapers, newsclippings, articles, letters, reports, and other material.
box 7, folder 1-14

Camps Misc July 1981-2013

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: Redress Survey, 442nd/MIS, Evac Claims Act, Coram Nobis, Loss Est., Children's Village, Alieut/Probilof, Canadian Nikkei, Draft Resisters, Cal Lutheran, Opposition, Tule Lake, Big Mountain, and Ralph Lazo

Scope and Contents

Includes copied newsclippings, notes, budget information, thesis titled: The Internment of Japanese by the United States government 1942-1945, Redress legislation, Fair Play Committee Bulletins, Draft Resistance at Heart Mountain Concentration Camp and Fair Play Committee summary by Frank Emi, booklets, schedules, letters, statements, Big Mountain legal update, and other material.
box 7, folder 15-21

Camps Vol. II 1989-1996

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. The tabs in the binder read: Dachau, Oasao, NCRR Outreach, Gripsolm, Lobby Wash DC., and Redress Bills.

Scope and Contents

Includes fluers copied news clippings, newsletters, Delegation planninng tasks, notes, copied book chapters, drafts, letters, bills, HR442, Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and other material.
box 8, folder 1-5

ASAM 1969-2011; undated

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. Tab 2 of 3 in the binder read: The "Movement."

Scope and Contents

Includes newsletters, copied news clippings, letters, flyers, booklets, and other material.
box 8, folder 6-7

Japn Latin Americans circa 1984-2009

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder. Tab 2 of 2 read: Latin America.

Scope and Contents

Includes Campain for Justice newsletters and flyers, copied news articles, news clippings and other material.
box 8, folder 8-9

JPN History circa 1970-1990; undated

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes news clippings, copied news clippings, census information, handwritten notes, interviews, outline of 100 years of Japanese labor in the US by Karl G. Yonega and other material.
box 8, folder 8-10

Japn Am Misc circa 1983-2017

Processing Information

The original binder was disassembled for preservation purposes. The title is from the binder.

Scope and Contents

Includes copied new clippings, newsletters, and other material.
 

Publications 1969-April 27, 2019

Arrangement

This series is arranged by date.

Scope and Contents

This series contains publications with various subjects. The subjects include incarceration camps, the Manzanar incarceration camp, and Redress.
box 9, folder 1

"The Japanese of Los Angeles" 1969

box 9, folder 2

"Amersia Journal" July 1971, February 1972

Scope and Contents

Vol. 1, No. 2 and 4.
box 9, folder 3

"The Lost Years 1942-1946" 1972

box 9, folder 4

"The World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans and the Struggle for Reparations/Redress" November 1980

box 9, folder 5

"The Manzanar Pilgrimage - A Time for Sharing" 1981

box 9, folder 6

"Democracy Betrayed, the Case of Redress" November 21, 1984

box 9, folder 7

"Redress: The American Promise" 1986

box 9, folder 8-10

"Nanka Nikkei Voices" May 29, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2010

Scope and Contents

Includes 1998 and Vol. 2-4.
box 9, folder 11

"Reflections in Three Self-Guided Tours of Manzanar" 1998

box 9, folder 12

"The Manzanar Committee - Keep it Going, Pass it On" 2004

box 9, folder 13

Annual Mazanar Pilgrimage booklets April 25, 2015-April 27, 2019

Scope and Contents

46th, 48th, and 50th annual booklets.
box 10, folder 1

"Stand Up for Justice the Ralph Lazo Story" teacher's guide secondary level 2007

Material Specific Details: Includes 1 DVD.