Letter from Tut Yata to President Harry S. Truman

% FILED BY 5/31 (Ng MR. HOPKINS JACL Japanese American Citizens League JUL 9 1952 An All American of American Citizens National Headquarters 412-415 BEASON BLDG. TELEPHONE 5-6501 Southern California Office: SALT LAKE CITY 1, UTAH 258 East First Street Los Angeles 12, California Phone: MAdison 64471 May 28, 1952 133 Honorable Harry S. Truman Pro President of the United States The White House P Washington D. C. Dear Mr. President: x 197 mise The Pacific Southwest District Council comprising seventeen chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League located in Arizona and Southern California urge your enactment into law of the Walter-McCarran Omnibus Bill on immigration and naturalization. # The Walter-McCarran Omnibus Bill includes provisions for the elimination of racial restrictions in our immigration and naturalization laws, re- strictions that have branded and stigmatized persons of Japanese ancestry as both undesirable and "not good enough" for American citizenship. Enactment of this legislation will end decades of inequitable discrimi- nation suffered by loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry and will prove an invaluable factor in enhancing relations between the United States and Japan as well as other countries of the Orient. By unanimous resolution, the chapters of the JACL Pacific Southwest District Council, of which I serve as chairman, urge that the Walter- McCarran Omnibus Bill be given your signature without further delaying justice long overdue. Respectfully yours, E, JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE community July Yata Tut Yata, Chairman Pacific Southwest District Council TY:my For Better Americans In A Greater America