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Description
Caption next to image reads, "LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST U.S.--Hannah Tomiko Holmes, a Japanese-American who was interned at Manzanar, speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles Wednesday during which it was announced that a lawsuit had been filed against the United States government by a group of Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II. The suit seeks to represent more than 120,000 former internees as a class and seeks more than $24 billion in reparations." The Newspaper Photograph Collection is made up of photographs that were printed in the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Independent newspapers, between the 1950s and early 2000s.
Type
image
Format
Photographs sepia and black, 8 x 11 inches image/jpeg
Activism and involvement--Civil rights Redress and reparations--Legal petitions/coram nobis cases Redress and reparations--Mobilizing and organizing the community
Place
Los Angeles, California
Source
Historical Society of Long Beach, Long Beach, California
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