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The bill was supported by the majority of Democrats in Congress, while the majority of Republicans voted against it. The act was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. The act granted each surviving internee $20,000 in compensation, equivalent to $44,000 in 2023, with payments beginning in 1990.
Aug 9, 2013 · In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The...
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Dec 16, 2023 · First introduced in Congress as the Civil Liberties Act of 1987 (H.R. 442) and signed into law on August 10, 1988, by President Ronald Reagan, the act cited "racial prejudice, wartime hysteria and a lack of political leadership" as causes for the incarceration as a result of formal recommendations by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and ...
Establishes within the Treasury a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund (the Fund). Terminates the Fund after all authorized funds have been expended or ten years after enactment of this Act, whichever occurs first.
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 gave surviving Japanese Americans reparations and a formal apology by President Reagan for their incarceration during World War II. But its passage did not happen overnight.
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Apr 29, 2022 · On August 10, 1988, he signed the Civil Liberties Act, granting a presidential apology and monetary redress payments to those living individuals who had been affected by Executive Order...
Mar 24, 2020 · And finally, in 1988—a decade after the campaign began and over 40 years after the internment camps closed— President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which offered a formal apology...
