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![[Mr. Fujita becomes the 500th member of the Southwest JACL, Los Angeles, California, May 22, 1955]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8241/preview)
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[Mr. Fujita becomes the 500th member of the Southwest JACL, Los Angeles, California, May 22, 1955]
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.506
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Mr. Fujita receives a membership card and a coonskin cap upon becoming the 500th member of the Southwest Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) in Los Angeles, California, May 22, 1955. Fujita stands in middle laughing as he is handed a slip of paper from man in suit and bow tie at left and a woman in dark dress puts hat on his head at right; another smiling man in suit looks on back left.
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