【12/17 今日美史】 日裔集中营结束

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12/17

End of Japanese concentration camp

When

Where

Who

What

When: 1944

Who：President Ronald Reagan

What：

U.S. approved end to internment of Japanese Americans.

美国战后释放被关押的美籍日裔

Why

significant

An investigation opened by President Jim Carter in 1980 found little evidence of Japanese disloyalty during WW II, and concluded that the incarceration had been the product of racism. It recommended that the government pay reparations to the internees. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 to each camp internee. The legislation admitted that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership." Several significant legal decisions also arose out of Japanese-American internment, relating to the powers of the government to detain citizens in wartime.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, World War II, Pearl Harbor Attack, racism, civil rights, equality