Internment-3

=**JUSTICE** = ====**//By 1946, Japanese Americans were released from the internment camps, but the injustice of the war years was not forgotten. Many members of the Japanese American community were determined to create a public understanding of the injustices they had suffered and to resolve the basic Constitutional issues related to their wartime incarceration. More than forty years after internment, the U.S. government finally acknowledged its wrongs with a formal apology to the Japanese American community, and passage of the Civil Liberties Act in 1988.// - from "A More Perfect Union" http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/justice_main.html **====

===//"Rejoining society was difficult for many. Each individual received a $25 payment and transportation tickets at the time of release. Many detainees discovered that their pre-1941 communities had vanished, and their homes and businesses were lost."//===

Photograph 1:
===//"The postwar housing shortage, the competition for jobs with returning veterans, and lingering discrimination added to the difficulties. In some West Coast communities there was a special effort to welcome old neighbors home. In other areas, there were episodes of vandalism and threats against life and property."//===

Photograph 2:
===//"In addition to seeking to correct justice in the courts, Japanese Americans sought legislative redress for the injustice, hardships, and suffering that resulted from wartime incarceration. For these fundamental violations of the basic rights of individuals of Japanese descent, Congress apologized on behalf of the nation. Success came with the passage of the bill H.R. 442 by the 100th Congress. On August 10, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed that bill into law; it is now known as the Civil Liberties Act of 1988."//===