Primarily through the untiring efforts of the Japanese American Citizens League. and its amazing legislative representative. Mike Masaoka. some 500 National. State. and local laws which were once directed against Asian Americans have been removed from the statute books. the Oriental Exclusion Act of 1924 has been repealed. and an act to permit the naturalization of immigrants from Asian nations was passed by Congress in 1953. Only last year this Congress repealed the abhorrent Emergency Detention Act of 1950. which stood as a grim reminder of the deplorable experience of World War II. One of the most striking examples of the Nisei advancement can be seen in Hawaii governmental officials.
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