Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress
- ISBN-10
- 0252067649
- ISBN-13
- 9780252067648
- Category
- Japanese Americans
- Pages
- 309
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Authors
- Harry H. L. Kitano, Mitchell Takeshi Maki, Sarah Megan Berthold
Description
The Redress Movement refers to efforts to obtain the restitution of civil rights, an apology, and/or monetary compensation from the U.S. government during the six decades that followed the World War II mass removal and confinement of Japanese Americans. Early campaigns emphasized the violation of constitutional rights, lost property, and the repeal of anti-Japanese legislation. 1960s activists linked the wartime detention camps to contemporary racist and colonial policies. In the late 1970s three organizations pursued redress in court and in Congress, culminating in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing a national apology and individual payments of $20,000 to surviving detainees.
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