Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress
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Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress
（The Asian American experience）
University of Illinois Press, c1999
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Available at 30 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-290) and index
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ISBN 9780252024580
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Nearly fifty years after being incarcerated by their own government, Japanese American concentration camp survivors succeeded in obtaining redress for the personal humiliation, family dislocation, and economic ruin caused by their ordeal. An inspiring story of wrongs made right, as well as a practical guide to getting legislation through Congress, "Achieving the Impossible Dream" tells how members of this politically inexperienced minority group organized themselves at the grass-roots level, gathered political support, and succeeded in obtaining a written apology from the president of the United States and monetary compensation in accordance with the provisions of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252067648
Description
Nearly fifty years after being incarcerated by their own government, Japanese American concentration camp survivors succeeded in obtaining redress for the personal humiliation, family dislocation, and economic ruin caused by their ordeal. An inspiring story of wrongs made right as well as a practical guide to getting legislation through Congress, Achieving the Impossible Dream tells the compelling story of how members of a politically inexperienced minority group organized themselves at the grassroots level, gathered political support, and succeeded in obtaining a written apology from the president of the United States and monetary compensation in accordance with the provisions of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Representative Robert T. Matsui ix
Foreword by Roger Daniels xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction 1
1. Theoretical Perspectives 9
2. Historical Factors prior to World War II 20
3. World War II (1941-45) 33
4. The Postwar Decades (1945-69) 51
5. The Genesis of the Modern Redress Movement (1970-78) 64
6. The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (1979-82) 85
7. Other Efforts at Redress 117
8. The Continuing Legislative Battle (1983-86) 137
9. The Aligning of the One-hundredth Congress (1987-88) 161
10. The President's Signature and the Fight for Appropriations 189
11. Delivering on the Promise 213
12. Lessons of a Movement 228
Notes 243
Works Cited 279
Index 291
Illustrations follow page 50
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