Letters from the 8th Grade Social Studies Class, Honokaa High and Elementary School, Hawaii, to Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Letters from the 8th Grade Social Studies Class, Honokaa High and Elementary School, Hawaii, to Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Hawaii
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Petition
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Letters from the 8th Grade Social Studies Class, Honokaa High and Elementary School, Hawaii, to Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. In one letter, student Elizabeth Yong thanked O'Mahoney for his support of Hawaiian statehood and expressed the hope that she might one day have the right to vote for a President of the United States. In another letter, student Yoshio Nishimori states that Hawaiians are sending troops to fight in Korea and summarises that Hawaii should be able to send Senators and Representatives to Congress.
These letters are one example of many letters sent to US Congress by the people of Hawaii to petition for Statehood over a span of six decades. These letters show that the right to petition to Congress was also open for children.

Elizabeth Young and Yoshio Nishimori, Honokaa High and Ele-mentary School, Hawaii

National Archives, The Center for Legislative Archives, Hawaii Statehood, August 21 1959

https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/hawaii/student-letter.html

4 May 1951

Hannah Mehmet

National Archives, RG 46, Records of the U.S. Senate

English

Textual - handwritten letter

20th century Hawai'i