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Author_Harry H Kitano
Author_Mitchell T Maki
Author_S Megan Berthold
camp life
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Civil Liberties Act of 1988
detention camps
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evolution of Japanese American community
examples of grassroots lobbying
Executive Order 9066
eyewitness accounts of internment camps
Franklin D. Roosevelt
government redress
grassroots lobbying
incarceration of Japanese Americans
internment camps
interviews with Japanese American internees
interviews with Japanese Americans
Japanese American Citizens League
Japanese American internment
Japanese American internment in World War Two
Japanese American reparations
Japanese internment in World War Two
lobbying
mass removal
Nisei
official apology
Proclamation No. 21
redress movement
reparations
reparations movements
wartime internment
World War Two
Product details
- ISBN 9780252067648
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 1999
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Mitchell T. Maki is the is the president and CEO of the Go For Broke National Education Center. Harry H. L. Kitano was a professor emeritus of social welfare and sociology at UCLA and the author of The Japanese Americans: The Evolution of a Subculture. S. Megan Berthold is an associate professor and the Director of Field Education at the University of Connecticut.
