The East Side Freedom Library & the St. Paul Recovery Act Reading Group invite you to the October meeting of the Reparations Reading Group

How Did Japanese-Americans Get Reparations? What Can We Learn From Their Experience?

Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 6:30pm

This meeting will be on Zoom. You must register here to participate. 

During World War II, 120,000 Japanese-Americans, many of them born here and full citizens, were stripped of their land and property, arrested, detained, and confined in “internment” camps. After the war, they had to make their lives all over again. In 1988, more than forty years afterwards and a decade after organizing, protesting, and filing law suits, Japanese-Americans received an apology from President Reagan and each received a check for $20,000. How did they do it? What kind of precedent did this establish? What can the advocates of reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans learn from this experience?

Join us as we read and discuss several articles on this subject. Here are links to informative, readable articles:

• The Injustice of Japanese-American Internment Camps Resonates Strongly to This Day
• The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans’ Campaign For Reparations
• Japanese Americans’ Fight for Post-Internment Reparations Offers a Blueprint for Tackling Inequality in the Trump Era
• The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States
• Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting

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