Scrapbook Memories: A Visual History of the Orange County Japanese American Youths OrganizationMain MenuScrapbook Memories: A Visual History of the Orange County Japanese American Youths OrganizationIntroductionOrganization HistoryOC JAYs Events and ActivitiesInstallation BanquetsConclusion: Preserving a Local StoryBibliography and Special ThanksV Perezce559b973dc689fed067a8eba7e90f55fea5903d
Heading of Vol. XI, NO. 12 issue of Orange County JACL’s Santana Wind.
1media/1969-09_OCJAYs_SantanaWind_volxi_no12_heading-2020.004.s.r-008_thumb.jpg2024-07-01T22:04:37+00:00V Perezce559b973dc689fed067a8eba7e90f55fea5903d3664Excerpt from page 1 of newsletter, Orange County, CA, September 1969, 2020-004-s-r, Box 1, Folder 1, Orange County Japanese American Youths scrapbook. Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Chapman University, Orange, CA.plain2024-07-31T17:28:24+00:00V Perezce559b973dc689fed067a8eba7e90f55fea5903d
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1media/1969-09_OCJAYs_SantanaWind_volxi_no12_heading-2020.004.s.r-008.jpg2024-06-28T19:02:01+00:00Organization History16image_header2024-07-09T16:51:10+00:00The first OC JAYs event took place in August 1954 when Janet Fukuda and Jun Nishino invited other young Japanese Americans living in the Santa Ana area (Orange County, CA) to a picnic and baseball game. Many OC JAYs members were Nisei teenagers and young adults who had been incarcerated in internment camps as children during World War II. "Nisei" is the Japanese word for "second-generation" and it refers to children of Japanese immigrants who were born and educated in the United States.
The scrapbook notably contains local news clippings that highlight OC JAYs members and events from publications like the Santana Wind newsletter and The Rafu Shimpo newspaper. The Santana Wind was the official publication of the Orange County JACL. The Rafu Shimpo is a Japanese American newspaper based in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA that was first established in 1903.
