AANHPI History Calendar

· San Francisco, California

First Buddhist Mission on the US Mainland

history

Jodo Shinshu missionaries Revs. Shuye Sonoda and Kakuryo Nishijima arrived in San Francisco, founding the Buddhist Mission of North America-forerunner of the Buddhist Churches of America and the first enduring Buddhist institution on the US mainland. (Shares Sep 1 with the 1946 Great Hawaii Sugar Strike.)

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • Buddhist
  • religion
  • community
Event type
  • achievement/first

Sources

Also on September 1

resistance

Great Hawaii Sugar Strike

Some 26,000 sugar workers across 33 of Hawaii's 34 plantations struck for 79 days in the ILWU-led action-the first industry-wide strike in the islands and a turning point that broke the plantations' political power.