Achieving the impossible dream : how Japanese Americans obtained redress / Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold ; forewords by Robert T. Masui and Roger Daniels.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Asian American experience.
Main Author: Maki, Mitchell T. (Mitchell Takeshi)
Other Authors: Kitano, Harry H. L.
Berthold, S. Megan (Sarah Megan)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999], ©1999.
Series:Asian American experience.
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans > Civil rights.
World War, 1939-1945 > Reparations.
Physical Description:xvii, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.