Asian American legislators; Hayakawa, S.I. (Samuel Ichiye), 1906-1992; Japanese American Citizens League; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislators -- United States; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc; Arab Americans -- Civil...
Senator Samuel I. Hayakawa recommends that Iranians living in the United States should be interned in camps like the Japanese in World War II. The scene moves to the next evening at the Japanese American Citizen's League testimonial dinner where...
Bills, Legislative -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislative hearings -- United...
Speech by Robert Matsui before Congress asking for approval of the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 442. Matsui read the story from the 1941 Congressional Record by Mike Masaoka about his family's patriotism during World War II. Norman Y. Mineta...
Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Legislative hearings -- United States; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc; United States. Congress. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment...
Various people support the redress movement of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Speakers include Congressman Robert Matsui, internees, a war veteran, and president of the Japanese American Citizen League (JACL).
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.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc;
Discussions around the appropriiation for payment of Reparations. Speakers included: Bill Frenzel, Robert T. Matsui, Bruce A. Morrison, John J. Rhodes III., Daniel K. Akaka, Lawrence J. Smith, Robert S. Walker, Ronald V. Dellums, Howard L. Berman,...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc
House floor debate regarding implementing recommendations of the commission on war time relocation and internment of civilians. Speakers included Jim Wright (Speaker of the House), Barney Frank, Peter W. Rodino, Robert T. Matsui, Don Young, Howard...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; Matsui, Robert T., 1941 -- Speeches, addresses, etc
Discussions around Passing HR 442 & rejecting Dan Lungren's amendment to do away with monetary Reparations. Speakers included: Robert T. Matsui, Kenneth J. Gray, Norman Y. Mineta, Norman D. Shumway.
Asian American legislators; Legislators -- California; Matsui, Brian; Matsui, Doris; Matsui, Robert T., 1941-; United States. Congress -- Elections;
NBC Nightly News broadcast of Robert Matsui's introduction as a freshman congressman in the 96th congress. Follows Representative Matsui from his office in Sacramento to Capitol Hill . Includes a short biography of Matsui.
