2018 DOR Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Civil Liberties Act

“The Victory and … the Unfinished Business” was the theme of this year’s Day of Remembrance program, held Feb. 17 at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. While last year’s event marked the 75^th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast, this year the focus was on the 30^th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. The result of…

published on February 28, 2018