Chapter 2 describes the way in which the Nikkei supplemented their general cultural victories with political ones, thus winning acceptance despite the odds, that is, discrimination against them. This progress was largely the work of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). The JACL undertook a very sophisticated campaign to gain acceptance to a wide variety of West Coast activities. These included access to California festivals, cooperation with the American Legion (their supposed enemy), attention from mainstream politicians, the multiplication of JACL chapters, the networking with American and California politicians high and low. These included Los Angeles city councilmen, sheriffs, newspaper editors, prominenti like San Francisco Mayor “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Eleanor Roosevelt, and future U. S. senator William Knowland, scion of the influential Oakland Tribune.