Title
Institution ceremony and installation of officers, Sacramento Nisei VFW Post No. 8985
Subject
Japantown, Sacramento, 1947, Nisei Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 8985, Nisei War Memorial, 4th Street
Description
The Japanese American veterans of WWII from Sacramento were denied membership in the local VFW Post, and so they set about creating their own Nisei Post. The Institution Ceremony and Installation of the Officers of the Nisei VFW Post No. 8985 was held at the Buddhist Recreation Hall on February 2nd 1947. In 1956 the Nisei War Memorial was built at 1514 4th Street to memorialize those Nisei who had fought in World War II and remains the only building left from Sacramento's Japantown.
Creator
Kuroko Studio
Source
The Japanese American Archival Collection. MSS-94/01. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Date
February 2, 1947
Rights
The Japanese American Archival Collection. MSS-94/01. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.