Legacy of redress

Japanese Language School Mentality of Issei and Nisei Treatment by Chinese students Attempts to sign up for military service Recruited for the National JACL Redress Committee Criteria for who gets redress Changing "reparations" to "redress" Appointing John Tateishi as National JACL Redress Chair Inouye’s strategy for educating the American public JACL reaction to the idea of a commission Redress clash between Senators Inouye and Hayakawa Recalling President Carter’s signing of the Commission bill Poignant story from the CWRIC hearing in San Francisco John Tateishi plays a role in changing people's minds The unheralded help from beyond the community Legacy of redress Different races have to live together and interact

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I think the real legacy will be that in the United States, if you do something drastically unjust, that there has to be a redress for that. I think people will demand it and that people are entitled to it. And I think what happened is that, it’s important because the U.S. government, while they did redress the Japanese Americans, it means that it’d be much less likely that a similar type of thing could happen again because the first thing they would think of is, you know the last time we did this, look what it cost the government. Look what we had to do. And I think that will remain in the people’s consciousness, so that this makes a similar type of action much less likely to happen in the future. It’d be much less likely to happen in the future. It’d be much easier for it to happen, if nothing was done.

Date: July 1-2, 1998
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Mitchell Maki, Darcie Iki
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

politics redress