Word: issei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editorial in the Los Angeles Times. The FBI and the military had been compiling lists of "potentially dangerous" Japanese since 1932, but most were merely teachers, businessmen or journalists. And the lists totaled only about 2,000 names in a community of 127,000 (37% were aliens, known as Issei, the rest American-born Nisei, who theoretically had the same rights as other citizens). "Treat us like Americans," said the Japanese-American Citizens League. "Give us a chance to prove our loyalty...