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The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
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Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Law granting reparations to interned Japanese Americans
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly interned by the United States government during World War II and to "discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Reparation (legal)
Legal concept
In jurisprudence, reparation is replenishment of a previously inflicted loss by the criminal to the victim. Monetary restitution is a common form of reparation.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Internment of Japanese Americans
Mass incarceration in the U.S. during WWII
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)