University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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In 1941, America was forced into World War II by circumstances such as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and UCLA contributed many of its men and women to the armed forces. They could be seen everywhere, even at dances where uniforms, not suits, were the mode of dress. But the war affected campus life in other ways too: 17

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Tom Bradley (1940), a UCLA track star who become mayor of Los Angeles over 30 years later . . . and Jackie Robinson (1941), an out- standing basketball, football, and track star who became the first black player to break into major league professional baseball. Bill Ackerman, (above) a graduate who later became tennis coach of the UCLA squad for many decades, and for whom the student center is named . . . 16

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Chi Alpha Delta, A sorority, disappeared from the pages of the 1943 yearbook for the first time since its founding in 1929. In fact, its members and the entire Japanese- American student popu- lation disappeared from UCLA for the next four years because they were part of 112,000 Japanese- Americans who were moved from the Pacific coast and locked away in internment campus in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Utah, and other states. Iva Ikuko Toguri, a 1939 zoology graduate of UCLA, was stranded in Japan during the war and was forced to broadcast anti-American speeches to the US forces in the Pacific. She was nicknamed Tokyo Rose by the American troops and was subsequently sentenced to prison by US officials and stripped of her American citizenship. She now lives in Chicago, steadfastly declares her innocence, and is fighting to clear her name. 18