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Nisei Progressives was a Japanese American leftist political organization that advocated for civil rights and progressive policy from 1947 to XXXX

Founding
Nisei Progressives evolved out of grassroots organizing around Henry Wallace's presidential campaign with the Progressive Party. The organization's Los Angeles chapter began in the living room of Sakae and Fumiko Okanishi Ishihara's living room. The couple published an advertisement for people interested supporting Wallace's campaign in the Rafu Shimpo newspaper