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.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D769.8.A6 M29 1999

Overview

Series: The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Maki, Mitchell T. (Mitchell Takeshi)
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]
©1999
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.
Other Authors/Editors: Kitano, Harry H. L.
Berthold, S. Megan (Sarah Megan)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-290) and index.

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.

Subjects: Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. Japanese Americans--Civil rights. World War, 1939-1945--Reparations.

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