Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of The Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Leslie T. Hatamiya, 1993

The book starts out with a timeline of events and an explanation of what the book is about, then goes into the actual wartime experience of the Japanese Americans. including the anti-Japanese prejudice, the outbreak of war, the evacuations and internments, the JACL, etc.

Chapter 2 deals with how Congress works. Chapter 3 is entitled Chances for Success. This goes into the politics of the Japanese-American community and the redress movement along with opposition to redress. Chapter 4 is a detailed analysis of a Conference Report on redress (in considerable detail).

Chapter 5 is about the Commission on Wartime Relocation and their report Personal Justice denied. Chapter 6 deals with the Democrats recapturing the Senate in an election and what this had to do with the redress movement. Chapter 7 is about how four Japanese-American Congressman were involved in the redress movement. The next chapter concerns the Aleutian Islanders and how they were part of the redress movement.

Chapter 8 goes into the Japanese-American community after the release from the camps and onward and how they gradually became involved in the redress movement. The rest of the book deals with yet more details about what happened in relation to the bill, an appendices, and a section of notes.

For those who are interested in the legal and Congressional details of the redress movement than this is a valuable book; for others, you'd probably want to skip it.

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