Personal justice denied / report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians ; with a new foreword by Tetsuden Kashima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Author.

United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

Contributor:

United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. War Relocation Authority.

United States.

World War (1939-1945).

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.

Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans--Civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 493 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Civil Liberties Public Education Fund ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1997.

Washington, D.C. : Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, 1982-1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Personal Justice Denied tells the extraordinary story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II. Although this wartime episode is now almost universally recognized as a catastrophe, for decades various government officials and agencies defended their actions by asserting a military necessity.The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment was established by act of Congress in 1980 to investigate the detention program. Over twenty days, it held hearings in cities across the country, particularly on the West Coast, with testimony from more than 750 witnesses: evacuees, former government officials, public figures, interested citizens, and historians and other professionals. It took steps to locate and to review the records of government action and to analyze contemporary writings and personal and historical accounts. The Commission’s report is a masterful summary of events surrounding the wartime relocation and detention activities, and a strong indictment of the policies that led to them. The report and its recommendations were instrumental in effecting a presidential apology and monetary restitution to surviving Japanese Americans and members of the Aleut community.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prologue by The Civil Liberties Public Education Fund

Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima

Introduction by Angus Macbeth, Special Counsel

Summary

Part I: Nisei and Issei

1. Before Pearl Harbor

2. Executive Order 9066

3. Exclusion and Evacuation

4. Economic Loss

5. Assembly Centers

6. Relocation Centers

7. Loyalty: Leave and Segregation

8. Ending the Exclusion

9. Protest and Disaffection

10. Military Service

11. Hawaii

12. Germans and German Americans

13. After Camp

Appendix: Latin Americans

Part II: The Aleuts

War and Evacuation in Alaska

Notes to Parts I and II

Part III: Recommendations

Recommendations

Part IV: Papers for the Commission

Addendum to 'Personal Justice Denied'

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-295-80234-0

OCLC:

774403173