Japanese American National Library
- Japanese American National Library
The Japanese American National Library is a non-lending library and resource center in San Francisco's Japantown for the collection and preservation of materials relating to Japanese Americans. It has been in operation since 1969 and contains books, periodicals, and archival collections, most notably the archives of the Japanese American Citizens League Legislative Education Committee (JACL-LEC), an organization created to promote redress that ultimately became the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
ee also
* Japanese American National Museum
* Japanese American Citizens League
External links
* [http://www.janlibrary.org The JANL Website]
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