· Washington, D.C.

Commission on Wartime Relocation Established

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President Carter signed the law creating the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate the WWII incarceration; its 1981 hearings gave hundreds of survivors their first public voice.

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • redress
  • law
Event type
  • founding

Sources

  • congress.gov congress.gov/96/statute/STATUTE-94/STATUTE-94-Pg964.pdf
  • history.house.gov history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/APA/Historical-Essays/Exclusion-to-Inclusion/Redress