by Mitchell T Maki, Harry H Kitano and S Megan Berthold
foreword by Robert T Matsui
University of Illinois Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-252-06764-8
Library of Congress Classification D769.8.A6M29 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.53089956073

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.