Civil Liberties Act 1988 is a United States federal law that granted preparations to Japanese Americans who had been intended by the United States government during WORLD WAR II.
In 1988 Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act which States that a "grave injustice" had been done to Japanese Americans citizens and resident aliens during WORLD WAR II.
Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act, which awarded more Tha. 80,000 Japanese Americans /20,000 dollars each to compensate them for the ordeal they have suffered.
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was signed by President Ronald Reagan in an effort to repay a terrible wrong that had been done to Japanese Americans and Japanese visitors to this country during World War II, when thousands were placed in internment camps, simply because of their heritage. The act awarded these people or their descendants $20,000 each to make up for what they had suffered. Each one also received an official apology from the President of the United States. The act specifically stated that the government had forced these internments based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."
(direct quote from the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which can be found on U.S. government websites)
