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Personal justice denied : public hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981.
- Format:
- Website/Database
- Series:
- Archives unbound
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.
- United States.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Genre:
- Electronic reference sources.
- Databases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4,670 images).
- Place of Publication:
- Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, Cengage Learning, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was established by act of Congress in 1980. Between July and December 1981, the CWRIC held 20 days of public hearings in Seattle, WA; Alaska; Washington, D.C; New York, New York; Chicago, Ill.; Cambridge, MA; and, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA. This publication consists of the testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission's inquiry. Many of the transcripts are personal stories of experiences of evacuees. Documents include publications, reports, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. related to the hearings.
- Notes:
- Date range of documents: 1981.
- Reproduction of the originals from the National Archives (U.S.).
- Version viewed May, 3, 2012; title from home page.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- OCLC:
- 760023105
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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