"Japanese-Americans were concentration camps."
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Campaign coordinator urges support: this ugly chapter in U.S. history are being raised in the courts by Gordon Hirabayashi and in Congress by legislation calling for governmental redress.
Government suppressed
evidence Hirabayashi was convicted in 1942 for refusing to obey a curfew order in Seattle. The curfew was passed before the institution of Roosevelt's roundup and internment order.
Now his case is open again, thanks to the discovery that the demands-compensation of $20,000 for each of the survivors of the camps (which amounts to a total of $1.5 billion) and a public apology by Congress and the president.
These recommendations have been written into legislation that is now in subcommittees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) hopes that the legislation will accomplish what the court challenges cannot.
John Tateishi, JACL redress director, explained to Socialist