Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislators -- California; Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislative hearings -- United States;
Article 1: Sen. Ralph Dills (D-Calif.) introduced SJR 21, a joint resolution, June 8 asking for the President and Congress to enact redress legislation in both the House and Senate. Article 2: The House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Peter...
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Legislators -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; United States. Congress. Commission on...
Rep. Sidney Yates (D-Illinois) switches his support from a bill backed by the National Council for Japanese American Redress to the senate bill 1647, the Study Commission Bill. Article includes photograph of Rep. Sidney Yates.
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese American Citizens League. National Committee for Redress; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945;...
President Carter signed redress bill to form a commission to look into Japanese American Internment during Word War II. Article lists those in attendance.
Legislative hearings -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Legislative hearings -- United States; Bills, Legislative -- United States;
Transcripts of congressional hearings on the H.R. 4110 redress bill before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations have been released according to the Japanese American Citizens League National Redress...
Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Quotations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945;
A court decision allows Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II to sue the government for damages. According to Robert T. Matsui, it "...is a first step toward correcting a grave injustice." He then urges going forward for congressional...
Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Quotations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945;
A court decision allows Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II to sue the government for damages. According to Robert T. Matsui, it "...is a first step toward correcting a grave injustice." He then urges going forward for congressional...
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 --...
Americans for Fairness held a fundraising event at Sacramento City College. The funds raised would support lobbying efforts for the enactment of the Japanese American redress bill, H.R. 442. Robert T. Matsui and Norman Mineta spoke at the event.
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese American Citizens League. National Committee for Redress;...
Harry Kajihara, Japanese American Citizens League National President, discusses the passage of H.R. 442, Civil Liberties Act of 1987. As stated by Harry Kajihara, there are two more hurdles including the President signing the bill or a two-thirds...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.;
The Congressional Record consists of four sections: the proceedings of the House, the proceedings of the Senate, the Extensions of Remarks containing matter not part of the spoken debates and proceedings, and the Daily Digest of activity in the...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Legislators -- United States; Matsui, Robert T., 1941-; Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-; Helms, Jesse; Shumway,...
Senator Jesse Helms and Representative Norman Shumway speak out against redress in congress. Representatives Lawrence Smith and Ron Dellums speak out for redress. Representative Robert Matsui and Mary Tsukamoto are interviewed speaking out for...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.;Koramatsu, Fred; Hirabayashi, Gordon; Tsukamoto, Mary
Fred Koramatsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui with lawyers in 1983. Peter Irons speaks about how suppressed evidence bought to light in these legal cases showed that the interment of Japanese Americans was wrong. Mary Tsukamoto speaks out...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc; Tsukamoto, Mary
Mary Tsukamoto, Representative Robert Matsui, and other Japanese Americans ask for monetary compensation that was promised to surviving internes in 1988.
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Photographs; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Matsunaga, Spark, 1916-;...
L to R: Sen. Spark Matsunaga, D-Hawaii; Rep. Patricia Saiki, R-Hawaii; Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif.; Don Young, R-Alaska; and Robert Matsui, D-Calif. President Ronald Reagan celebrates with senators and representatives during a signing ceremony of...
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Photographs; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Matsunaga, Spark, 1916-;...
L to R: Sen. Spark Matsunaga, D-Hawaii; Unidentified; Rep. Patricia Saiki, R-Hawaii; Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif.; Unidentified; Don Young, R-Alaska; Robert Matsui, D-Calif.; Unidentified; and Unidentified. President Ronald Reagan signs H.R. 442,...
Asian American legislators; Japanese American Citizens League. National Committee for Redress; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislators -- California; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Nobuyuki, Karl; Legislators --...
First formal meeting of National Committee for Redress and Japanese American congressional delegation held Feb. 1 in Washington to discuss purpose and intent of legislation to grant redress to Japanese Americans interned during World War II. ...
Asian American legislators; Japanese American Citizens League. National Committee for Redress; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislators -- California; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Nobuyuki, Karl; Legislators --...
First formal meeting of National Committee for Redress and Japanese American congressional delegation held Feb. 1 in Washington to discuss purpose and intent of legislation to grant redress to Japanese Americans interned during World War II. ...
Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Mineta, Norman Yoshio, 1931--Quotations; Japanese American Citizens League; Asian American legislators; United States. Congress. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians;
Norman Mineta spoke at a Japanese American Citizens League sponsored dinner honoring 19 Bay Area Japanese American civic leaders. The dinner was sponsored by the Japanese American Citizens League Northern California, Western Nevada, and Pacific...
Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Photographs; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.;
Robert T. Matsui speaks in support of H.R. 442, Civil Liberties Act of 1985 at a Capitol Hill press conference. Includes photograph of Robert T. Matsui.
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislative hearings -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 --...
On the first day of the 100th Congress Rep. Robert T. Matsui and Rep. Norman Y. Mineta reintroduced H.R. 442, a reparations bill for Japanese Americans interned during World War II. The main sponsor of the bill is Majority Leader Thomas Foley...
Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Japanese American Citizens League. National Committee for Redress; Bills, Legislative -- United States;
Two votes were approved during the National Japanese American Citizens League Redress Committee meeting: to endorse the concept of a (legislative) commission and to endorse the "one-step" concept of examining the remedies for the internment of...
