The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese
American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well
known by now. Less well known is the history of the small group of
Seattle activists who gave birth to the national movement for
redress. It was they who first conceived of petitioning the U.S.
Congress to demand a public apology and monetary compensation for
the individuals and the community whose constitutional rights had
been violated. Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro, using hundreds of
interviews with people who lived in the internment camps, and with
people who initiated the campaign for redress, has constructed a
very personal testimony, a monument to these courageous organizers'
determination and deep reverence for justice. Born in Seattle
follows these pioneers and their movement over more than two
decades, starting in the late 1960s with second-generation Japanese
American engineers at the Boeing Company, as they worked with their
fellow activists to educate Japanese American communities,
legislative bodies, and the broader American public about the need
for the U.S. Government to acknowledge and pay for this wartime
injustice and to promise that it will never be repeated.
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