Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress /

Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress / Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold ; forewords by Robert T. Masui and Roger Daniels.

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Main Author: Maki, Mitchell T. (Mitchell Takeshi)
Other Authors: Kitano, Harry H. L., Berthold, S. Megan (Sarah Megan)
Other title:How Japanese Americans obtained redress.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Series:Asian American experience.
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans > Civil rights.
World War, 1939-1945 > Reparations.
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical perspectives
  • Historical factors prior to World War II
  • World War II (1941-45)
  • The postwar decades (1945-69)
  • The genesis of the modern redress movement (1970-78)
  • The commission on wartime relocation and internment of civilians (1979-82)
  • Other efforts at redress
  • The continuing legislative battle (1983-86)
  • The aligning of the One-hundredth Congress (1987-88)
  • The President's signature and the fight for appropriations
  • Delivering on the promise
  • Lessons of a movement.

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