Achieving the Impossible Dream: HOW JAPANESE AMERICANS OBTAINED REDRESS (Asian American Experience)

Maki, Mitchell T,Kitano, Harry H,Berthold, S Megan

ISBN 10: 0252067649 / ISBN 13: 9780252067648

Edité par University of Illinois Press, 1999

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l'auteur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Achieving the Impossible Dream: HOW JAPANESE...
Éditeur : University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good