Achieving the Impossible Dream : HOW JAPANESE AMERICANS OBTAINED REDRESS (Asian American Experience)

Maki, Mitchell T/ Kitano, Harry H/ Berthold, S Megan

University of Illinois Press（1999/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252067648
• DDC分類 323.11956073

基本説明

The survivors of the ordeal during World War II received a written apology from the president of the United States and monetary compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

Full 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.

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