June 19, 2021 - the first official Juneteenth federal holiday and reparations
Minoru Yasui testifying at the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) in Washington D.C. in July of 1981. Open Letter to the Congress of the United States of America, I am writing to support HR-40, establishing a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. I am a third-generation Japanese American. My grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles were all imprisoned in so-called Relocation camps in the U.S. during World