Support for reparations within the harmed community was initially divided and thin.

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