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Achieving the Impossible Dream
How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress
Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H. L. Kitano, and S. Megan BertholdForeword by Robert T. Matsui
Cloth978-0-252-02458-0
$52.00
Paper978-0-252-06764-8
$25.00
| Pub Date: | 1999 |
| Pages: | 344 pages |
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 how members of this politically inexperienced minority group organized themselves at the grass-roots 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.
"The story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans and the subsequent Japanese American redress movement involves the worst and best of what our country has to offer. Mitchell Maki, Harry Kitano, and Megan Berthold have written an informative account of the Japanese American community's quest for justice."—Senator Daniel K. Inouye "The story of the Japanese American redress movement involved the victimization of an American community; the strength and courage of that community to raise its voice to demand justice; the legislative and judicial battles that made that demand a reality; and most important, the healing and reconciliation that occurred within individuals and a community and between a nation and its people. . . . Through archival documents, public statements, and personal stories, Achieving The Impossible Dream tells this very important story. It is must reading for all Americans who cherish the Constitution and all that it promises."—Norman Y. Mineta, former U.S. congressman
Awards:
Winner of a Myers Outstanding Book Award, from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 2000.
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Series:
The Asian American Experience
Subjects:
History, Am.: 20th C. / History, Military / Public Administration / Sociology / Political Science / Law / Asian-American Studies
