Achieving the impossible dream
Subtitle: how Japanese Americans obtained redress
By: Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold ; forewords by Robert T. Matsui and Roger Daniels.
Contributors: Kitano, Harry H. L.; Berthold, S. Megan
Series: The Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights.; Japanese Americans -- Reparations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical perspectives; title: Historical factors prior to World War II; title: World War II (1941-45); title: The postwar decades (1945-69); title: The genesis of the modern redress movement (1970-78); title: The commission on wartime relocation and internment of civilians (1979-82); title: Other efforts at redress; title: The continuing legislative battle (1983-86); title: The aligning of the One-hundredth Congress (1987-88); title: The President's signature and the fight for appropriations; title: Delivering on the promise; title: Lessons of a movement.