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Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress
Title:
Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress
Author:
Maki, Mitchell T. (Mitchell Takeshi)
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xvii, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780252024580

9780252067648
Format :
Book