The commission's recommendations resulted in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ... To reckon with this injustice ...

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The acclaimed author shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 ...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during ...

The US government locked up nearly 126,000 Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945, but never kept comprehensive records of all ...

Justifying internments of Japanese U.S. citizens during World War II, John J. McCloy, the assistant secretary of war, ...

which has reverberated through history as a crucial moment in the fight for civil liberties in the United States. This ruling came during World War II, a time when fear and prejudice against ...

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which included a formal apology from the United States for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. "When you go ...

For many decades after World War II, Japanese Americans pushed forward redress efforts to advocate for federal compensation ...

The commission recommendations resulted in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ... National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019.

After reading about Korematsu in the paper, Ernest Besig, who founded the American Civil Liberties Union branch in Northern California, wanted to use the 23-year old’s case as a test trial to ...