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National Japanese American Historical Society, Published 1987. Paperback, 91 pp.; 28 cm; first printing; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy beige illustrated covers with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners; mild to moderate shelf wear with mild color loss along edges, spine and across both covers. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked apart from a previous owner's surname in ink at head of title page.Published by the National Japanese American Historical Society to accompany a Smithsonian Institution exhibition marking the bicentennial of the United States Constitution, this commemorative booklet sets the Japanese American experience against the nation's constitutional history. A detailed chronology runs from pre-1855 to 1987, covering immigration and exclusion laws, the WWII incarceration under Executive Order 9066, the assembly and relocation centers, the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service, and the redress movement, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs. Edited by Clifford I. Uyeda, with messages from President Ronald Reagan, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Senator Daniel K. Inouye.Contents: Background Story of the Smithsonian Exhibit; Greetings; Prologue; Chronology (Pre-1855 to 1987); Naturalization Laws; Presidential Power; Justice Department Internment Camps and Citizen Isolation Camps; Loss of Basic Rights; A Case of Mistaken National Identity; Temporary Detention Camps; Permanent Detention Camps; Loyalty Questionnaire; Resistance to Injustice; Japanese American Soldiers in World War II; Military Intelligence Service; The Supreme Court; Decorations Awarded the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team; U.S. Census; Epilogue; Sponsors; References.