Author : Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Release : 2012-08-01
Genre : Social Science
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Personal Justice Denied - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personal Justice Denied write by Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. This book was released on 2012-08-01. Personal Justice Denied available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.