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Title
[The Civil Libertise Act of 1988: questions and answers]
Creator
United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division: author
Okada, Misao: compiler
Date Created and/or Issued
[1988-1990]
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
An information booklet about The Civil Liberties Act of 1988. It was signed into law on August 10, 1988 by President Reagan. According to this booklet, "The purposes of the Act are to acknowledge and apologize for the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment, to make restitution, and to fund a public education program to prevent the recurrence of any similar event in the future." The booklet then goes through a series of questions and answers about the Act. Item from Misao Okada’s album.
Misao Okada’s scrapbook contains photographs, ephemera, notes, and correspondence documenting her time at Amache and a visit and reunion over 50 years later. The scrapbook also includes materials relating to reparations and events observing Japanese American incarceration.
Type
text
Format
Booklets
16 pages, typed
application/pdf
Identifier
oka_109
csudh_oka_0110
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6716
Language
English
Subject
Redress and reparations
Reflections on the past
Place
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Misao Okada's Album

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