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Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress Paperback - 1999

by Mitchell T. Maki; Harry H. Kitano; S. Megan Berthold


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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.

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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 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.

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  • Title Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress
  • Author Mitchell T. Maki; Harry H. Kitano; S. Megan Berthold
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition F First Edition
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
  • Date 1999-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780252067648 / 0252067649
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.05 x 1.06 in (22.91 x 15.37 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress subjects Japanese Americans - Evacuation and, Japanese Americans - Civil rights
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-58016
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.530

About the author

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.
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