PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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to develop Japanese American ethnic studies programs
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to encouraging voter registration among Japanese Americans
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to combat the myth of Japanese Americans as the model minority
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to obtain reparations for Japanese Americans interned during World War II
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Detailed explanation-1: -1979: JACL advocates for the introduction and passage of legislation to establish a federal commission to investigate the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and to make recommendations to the Congress.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), founded in 1929, is the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to upholding the civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear-not evidence-drove the U.S. to place over 127, 000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20, 000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II.