A redress campaign began within the Japanese American community decades before federal action.

Evidence

By the 1960s, with a growing national civil rights movement, things began to change. Children and grandchildren of Japanese Americans who had been imprisoned during the war began a grassroots campaign for the government to redress the harms done. In 1970 the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) adopted a resolution that demanded “federal legislation to provide tax-free monetary ‘reparations’ to Japanese Americans (or their heirs) who were excluded and incarcerated during World War II and a $400 million fund for community projects.” However, progress stalled because there still wasn’t widespread support even in the Japanese American community for reparations. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 189

Categorization

• XREF: Precedent case (Japanese American redress) that Brown uses to build the reparations argument — parallels to the architecture of the Black reparations case. — connects to: Initially only a third of Japanese Americans supported the redress campaign.; Japanese American redress gained bipartisan co-sponsorship by 1979. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 191; A prominent Japanese American adviser urged Reagan to veto redress. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 225
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Initially only a third of Japanese Americans supported the redress campaign.; Japanese American redress gained bipartisan co-sponsorship by 1979. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 191; A prominent Japanese American adviser urged Reagan to veto redress. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 225

Broader Connections

• A prominent Japanese American adviser urged Reagan to veto redress. #complicates (0.72) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 225