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Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Title: Nelson and Beverly Nagai Collection of Asian-American History and Culture source: Nagai, Nelson source: Nagai, Beverly Identifier/Call Number: M1928 Physical Description: 7.5 Linear Feet: 10 boxes, 2 oversize folders Date (inclusive): circa 1968-1980 Abstract: Publications & ephemera of late-20th century radical political activism centered in the Bay Area, with an emphasis on Asian-American activism. Includes correspondence, newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, printed ephemera, t-shirts, buttons, and videocassettes. Scope and Contents This collection consists of publications & ephemera of late-20th century radical political activism, with an emphasis on Asian American protest movements. The collection includes the following material: Radical Asian community newspapers, most from the 1970s and 1980s ; various pamphlets related to Communism, the African-American, Chicano and Puerto Rican communities, and American workers and radical Leftist movements; t-shirts with safety-pin buttons from the 1970s; large photographs of the sites of Japanese internment camps in California; and movie posters of films about Asians and Asian-Americans. Biographical / Historical Nelson Nagai was the chairperson of the constitution committee of Stockton s Yellow Seed, a community service organization. While at Stanford University, Nagai also served as the chairperson of the Asian American Student Association. During the International Hotel struggle, Nagai served as the auditor of the International Hotel Tenants Association. The original Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) storefront in San Francisco Chinatown, 1971, located on the ground floor of the International Hotel. At the time, the images produced by KSW's silkscreen and graphics artists were among the first to portray strong and bold images of Asian Americans. The group's work was a hallmark of the Asian American movement on the West Coast but it was also a place "where they felt they belonged," which is how Nelson Nagai described the Yellow Seed, a Stockton organization (see text below). From an excerpt of "I Come From a Yellow Seed" by Nelson Nagai: "[In 1969] it was decided that the Asian community needed a drop-in center for youth -- some place where they felt they belonged and an alternative to the pool hall [which had been boycotted because the white owner told Asians to leave the establishment]. So the Yellow Seed Center was born. Quickly an organization was started around the center. [In 1971] the Yellow Seed received funding for a recreation center to serve the children of Asian cannery workers from the federal government. Our idea was to provide activities for Asian children so that they would not have to run the streets like we did." From Snapshots of Asian America (KQED) Conditions Governing Access Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy. Conditions Governing Use While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. Preferred Citation [identification of item], Nelson and Beverly Nagai Collection of Asian-American History and Culture (M1928). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Immediate Source of Acquisition Gift of Nelson Nagai, 2012. Accession 2012-249. Related Materials Some items were catalogued individually and can be found on Searchworks at this link: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?q=%22the+nelson+and+beverly+nagai+collection+of+asian-american+history+and+culture.% M1928 2
University of the Pacific holds the Nelson Nagai And Grace Sumida Collection (MSS 329), whjich contains material collected by Nelson and his mother Grace. Subjects and Indexing Terms Radicalism. Asian-Americans -- History Printed ephemera Nagai, Nelson Nagai, Beverly box 1, folder 1 box 1, folder 2 box 1, folder 3 box 1, folder 4 box 1, folder 5 box 1, folder 6 box 1, folder 7 box 1, folder 8 box 1, folder 9 box 1, folder 10 box 1, folder 11 box 1, folder 12 box 1, folder 13 box 1, folder 14 box 1, folder 15 box 2, folder 1 box 2, folder 2 box 2, folder 3 box 2, folder 4 box 2, folder 5 box 2, folder 6 box 2, folder 7 box 2, folder 8 box 2, folder 9 box 2, folder 10 box 2, folder 11 box 2, folder 12 box 2, folder 13 box 2, folder 14 box 2, folder 15 box 2, folder 16 box 2, folder 17 box 2, folder 18 box 2, folder 19 box 2, folder 20 box 2, folder 21 box 3, folder 1 box 3, folder 2 box 3, folder 3 box 3, folder 4 box 3, folder 5 box 3, folder 6 box 3, folder 7 box 3, folder 8 box 3, folder 9 The Struggle Against Revisionism and Opportunism (Black Workers' Congress) "Party Building in the Heat of the Class Struggle" (Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers) Yellow Seed Nihonmachi Little Friends Bay Area Asian Coalition Against the War International Hotel Stanford Asian-American Students' Association CANE (Committee Against Nihonmachi Eviction) Asian Community Center Asian American Student Alliance (Stanford) Left in Form, Right in Essence Unidentified Braille Unidentified Transparencies Lahing Pilipino Roadblocks to Community Building (Stockton Filipino Community Center) The Chicanos (NACLA) How Capitalism has been Restored in the Soviet Union The Energy Crisis and You Ideology of the Young Lords Party Communist Revolution: The Road to the Future, The Goal We Will Win Critique of the Black Nation Thesis Education to Govern A New Outlook on You on Me on Health From Trotskyism to Social-Imperialism The Anti-Marxist-Leninist Line of Progressive Labor A Polemic Against The Guardian's Revisionism Proletarian Internationalism or Revisionism The "New Economic Policy" Affirmative Action Discrimination (conference) Defeat the "National Question" (New Voice) Beyond Welfare (Committee for Political Development) Wage Controls and How to Fight 'Em (United Front Press) The United Front Against War and Fascism (Gamma Publishing) Unite the Many, Defeat the Few (Guardian pamphlet) Workers' Viewpoint Journal Revolutionary Union Against Dogmatism on the National Question Campesinos Organizan su Union - SI SE PUEDE! The Heritage of Sen Katayama For Working Class Unity and Black Liberation A Comment On The Statement Of The Communist Party (USA) Delay Evictions Chinese-American Workers: Past & Present August 29th Movement (ATM) Statements of the Founding (League of Revolutionary Struggle) M1928 3
box 3, folder 10 New Programme and New Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party box 3, folder 11 Voices: A Filipino American Oral History box 3, folder 12 Little Manila Site Dedication Pamphlet (with inserted note) flat-box 4, folder 1 Communist Line flat-box 4, folder 2 Kalayaan International flat-box 4, folder 3 Come Unity flat-box 4, folder 4 Unidad Latina flat-box 4, folder 5 The Veteran flat-box 4, folder 6 In Struggle flat-box 4, folder 7 Bay Area Asian Coalition Against The War flat-box 4, folder 8 Rodan flat-box 4, folder 9 Why An Asian War? flat-box 4, Da Zhong Bao (English Section) folder 10 flat-box 4, Honolulu Star Bulletin (Pearl Harbor) folder 11 flat-box 5, folder 1 Photographs (from "Bill") of Tule Lake Site flat-box 5, folder 2 New Dawn V. 1 flat-box 5, folder 3 New Dawn V. 2 flat-box 5, folder 4 New Dawn V. 3 flat-box 5, folder 5 New Dawn V. 4 flat-box 5, folder 6 New Dawn V. 5 flat-box 5, folder 7 New Dawn V. 6 flat-box 6, folder 1 Gidra 1969 flat-box 6, folder 2 Gidra 1970 flat-box 6, folder 3 Gidra 1971 flat-box 6, folder 4 Gidra 1972 flat-box 6, folder 5 Gidra 1973 flat-box 6, folder 6 Gidra 1974 flat-box 6, folder 7 Gidra 1990 flat-box 7 Getting Together V. 1-4 flat-box 8 Getting Together V. 5-9 box 9 Miscellaneous T-Shirts M1928 4
map-folder 10 Miscellaneous Posters Scope and Contents Please note: many have evidence of evidence of display and are damaged and or fragile. [color photocopies of WWII Allied propaganda] Asian/Pacific Students Taking a Stand in '84: California Statewide Asian/Pacific Student Union Conference, March 3, 1984 (Little Tokyo Art Workshop, L.A.) Sanrizuka [graphic of plane flying into crosshairs] Asian American Music: Joannne & Chris ; Hey Bro from L.A. [etc.] Stanford Branner Hall May 29th One Struggle - Many Fronts. Defeat U.S. Aggression. Bay Area Asian Coalition - Red Banner Collective (fragile/damaged) One Struggle - Many Fronts. Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Indochina. Stop The Genocide of Asian People (water damage) [International Hotel] Manilatown Heritage Foundation, 23rd Anniversary Commemoration August 6, 2000 Save the International Hotel. Low Cost Is A Right of the People (1972 People's Press) Long Live the International Hotel! March & Rally - October 9th (International Hotel Tenants Association - International Hotel Support Committee) Committee Against Nihonmachi Eviction (Cane) Principles Relocation Sites (copy of Western Defense Command & 4th Army - Wartime Civil Control Administration map) Join the 1979 Tule Lake Pilgrimage & Plaque Dedication (Tule Lake Committee) The Other Side of Infamy [graphic of watchtower at camp] Any Day Now - The April 3rd Movement (fragile/damaged) If We Worry About What's Going To Happen... [quote and photograph of Bobby Seale] (Berkeley Graphic Arts) May Day, May 1, 1969. Free Huey Day. Mass Rally, Federal Building, San Francisco (fragile/damaged) Hasher Power - No Business As Usual [stencil on newsprint] map-folder 11 box 12, folder 1 box 12, folder 2 box 12, folder 3 box 12, folder 4 box 12, folder 5 box 12, folder 6 box 12, folder 7 box 12, folder 8 box 12, folder 9 box 12, folder 10 box 12, folder 11 box 12, folder 12 box 12, folder 13 Miscellaneous film posters (inscribed to Nagai) Asian Americans: A Guide to Library Resources (Stanford) Manuscript National Filipino American Youth Association - 7th Annual Conference Asian American Jazz Festival Reader on History of Pilipinos in America Prairie Fire (Weather Underground) The Red Papers (Revolutionary Union) Puerto Rican Communist Pamphlets The 80s (Communist Workers' Party) Crime Among Our People (Pacesetters) Marxist-Leninist Pamphlets Struggle in the RU (Black Workers' Congress) Brown Pride Misc. Flyers from 11th Annual APAHE Conference M1928 5