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    "url_title": "Chicago Resettlers Committee/Japanese American Service Committee",
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    "title": "Chicago Resettlers Committee/Japanese American Service Committee",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"alert alert-info\">\n  <p>\n   The content in this article is still under development. A completed version will appear soon!\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n  Chicago area social service organization with roots in the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Resettlement/\" title=\"Resettlement\">\n   resettlement\n  </a>\n  era. Formed in November 1945 as the Chicago Resettlers Committee (CRC) by Japanese American community leaders in anticipation of the closing of the Chicago office of the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/War_Relocation_Authority/\" title=\"War Relocation Authority\">\n   War Relocation Authority\n  </a>\n  , the organization focused initially on the compelling problems of jobs and housing for the large influx of Japanese Americans into the city. Over time and as the community became more stable, the CRC came to focus more on recreational programs and on programs geared towards helping elderly\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n   Issei\n  </a>\n  . In 1954, the CRC changed its name to the Japanese American Service Committee (JASC). The organization continues to exist as a non-profit social service agency that also documents the history of Japanese Americans in Chicago, offers cultural classes, and serves as a gathering place for Japanese Americans in the region.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Albert, Michael Daniel.\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/japaneseamerican00albe\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     \"Japanese American Communities in Chicago and the Twin Cities.\"\n    </a>\n    Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1980.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Griffith, Chris. \"\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24030\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     'Integration, not Segregation': Japanese Americans in Chicago and Cleveland, 1942–1952.\n    </a>\n    \" Department of History Honors Thesis, The Ohio State University, 2006.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Japanese American Service Committee\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.jasc-chicago.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     website.\n    </a>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Nakama, Christian S. \"\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/1163\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     The History of the Chicago Resettlers Committee.\n    </a>\n    \" M.A. Thesis, Loyola University Chicago, 1952.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Wu Ellen D.\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/colorofsuccessas00wuel\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     <i>\n      The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority\n     </i>\n    </a>\n    . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160743\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.012 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.030 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 33/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 526/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 58/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    4.116      1 -total\n 33.89%    1.395      1 Template:Published\n 32.67%    1.345      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 31.12%    1.281      1 Template:comingsoon\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2472-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160743 and revision id 35629\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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