BOWLING
Did you know that Judy Seki was the first woman in California to bowl a sanctioned 300 game?

Dates of interest:
1947: JACL Bowling tournament is founded.
1949: A Nisei team in Seattle challenges the American Bowling Congress policy prohibiting membership by people of color by entering a Boeing Bowling League. By 1950 the color ban in bowling was lifted.
1949: By the late 1940s an estimated 300 Nisei bowling teams exist on the mainland.


Photo: Gift of Dusty Mizunoue (98.243.1)

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