State government workers fired for being Japanese received $5,000 redress each

Evidence

Meanwhile action was going on at the state level in California. Priscilla Ouchida, whose parents were imprisoned during World War II, was a legislative aide to freshman state assemblyman Patrick Johnston. She suggested that Johnston introduce legislation to address the state’s role in this episode of history. Johnston took up the charge and proposed a bill that would pay the wrongfully terminated state government workers $5,000 each, the minimum amount of documented losses actually suffered, over five years. The bill was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on August 17, 1982. Of the original 314 employees who were fired by the state, 280 received redress payments. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 196

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Japanese American internment victims received redress through relocation-era claims.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Japanese American internment victims received redress through relocation-era claims.