· Washington, D.C.

First Redress Payments to Incarcerees

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The first redress checks of $20,000, with signed presidential apology letters, were presented to nine of the oldest surviving former incarcerees, beginning payments under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • incarceration
  • redress
Event type
  • achievement/first

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