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
Photograph of the back wooden scrapbook cover.
1media/NoDate_OCJAYs_scrapbook_back_cover-2020.004.s.r-013_thumb.jpg2024-06-28T18:43:15+00:00V Perezce559b973dc689fed067a8eba7e90f55fea5903d3665Scrapbook cover, Orange County, CA, No Date, 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.plain2024-07-31T18:19:28+00:00V Perezce559b973dc689fed067a8eba7e90f55fea5903d
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1media/NoDate_OCJAYs_scrapbook_back_cover-2020.004.s.r-013.jpg2024-06-28T19:38:24+00:00Conclusion: Preserving a Local Story9image_header2024-07-10T17:07:46+00:00The materials preserved in the OC JAYs’ scrapbook offer a unique glimpse into the vibrant lives of local Japanese American youth in the 1950s and 1960s. During that time, several OC JAYs members won “good citizenship” awards from the Daughters of the American Revolution and celebrated those recognitions in the Santana Wind. By the 1960s, however, teens involved in the OC JAYs did not have first-hand experience of incarceration and perhaps felt less pressure than previous generations to prove they were patriotic Americans. OC JAYs membership gradually declined, and the organization ended around 1973.
Check out the digitized scrapbook on Chapman University’s Digital Commons and the scrapbook collection’s finding aid on ArchivesSpace.
