Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Agenda. Public Hearing... [caption title]

Seattle: September 11, 1981. Very good.. Two typed documents: 3; 3pp., each stapled. Minor wear. A pair of documents from the Seattle Public Hearing of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, both with extensive handwritten notes taken at the meeting in September 1981. The first document is the agenda from the Seattle public hearing; the second document is a testimonial prepared by the ACLU of Washington. The former document details the presentations and presenters for the public hearing, listing such topics as "Discrimination, Economic Loss and Redress," "Panel on Social Impact," "Multiple Impact on Aleuts," "Reparations," (truncated) "Japanese Peruvians," and more. The first page of this document is extensively marked up with notes and observations by an attendee. The latter was presented by Dr. Alex Gottfried, a political science professor at the University of Washington and a known anti-war activist. On the third page of this document, the meeting attendee records the proposed amounts for redress payments to internment camp survivors which also reference the Lowry bill. Between July and December of 1981, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians held eleven public meetings to examine the reasoning behind Executive Order 9066 and how it impacted the Japanese American and Aleutian communities with the goal of providing recommendations on the issue of redress. Following the release of the commission's report Personal Justice Denied, and continued activism by the Japanese American community, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed, which offered an official apology from President Reagan and $20,000 to each surviving Japanese American once incarcerated in a wartime internment camp. (Inventory #: 5691)