Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: TIME, Dec. 25, in an article entitled "The Nisei Go Back" gave some examples of communities venting their wrath on Nisei, including servicemen. I think they are doing a strictly amateurish job of hating...
There were dozens of instances of friendliness: Ray Sato, a 27-year-old Nisei from Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
...Washington's coastal White River valley, directors of an organization known as Remember Pearl Harbor League, Inc. ate a steak dinner, voted to boycott returning Japanese, listened with admiration to a member's opinion of Nisei in the U.S. Army: "They're all loyal to Hirohito...
...week) did not-and she finally walked out. Three years ago, as a member of the Sol Hurok troupe, she made another ballet exit-when the Government refused to let her go to California because of her Japanese blood. Sono, who has a brother with the Nisei 442nd combat team and is married to a young French-Moroccan architect, has never had any other trouble over race...
...Parker, Ariz. (pop. 456), Andy Hale put a sign in his barbershop: "Japs Keep Out You Rats," ejected Raymond Matsuda, a Nisei veteran, wounded in Italy. . These were isolated instances, in small communities. But most of the U.S. Japanese on the West Coast lived in such small towns. And in the larger cities, the Hearst press kept up its anti-Japanese screams. California's Governor Warren, setting the tone for the vast majority of West Coast citizens, promised every effort to keep the return of the Nisei orderly...