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Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations

Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations

Tateishi, John

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20th Century United States HistoryAsian American StudiesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1597144983
ISBN13: 9781597144988
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: Mar 10 2020
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

The unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Author John Tateishi, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign was seeking an unprecedented admission of wrongdoing from Congress. It depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community: for many, the shame of camp was so deep that they could not even speak of it; money was a taboo subject; the question of the value of liberty was insulting. Besides internal discord, the American public was largely unaware that there had been concentration camps on US soil, and Tateishi knew that concessions from Congress would come only with mass education about the government's civil rights violations.

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