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vh Pamela Rouse Dixon Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1020-9-3)

Challenges and successes with the Office of Redress Administration

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vh Pamela Rouse Dixon Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1020-9-5)

Answering incoming phone calls for the Office of Redress Administration

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vh Pamela Rouse Dixon Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1020-9-4)

Poignant memories of check presentation ceremonies

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Narrator Emlei "Emi" Kuboyama

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii. During the Redress Movement, the Department of Justice's Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established to identify and administer reparations payments to eligible individuals. Worked as an Attorney with the ORA from 1995 to 1998. After leaving the Department of Justice, continued working as a civil rights attorney with the U.S. Department …

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Collection Emi Kuboyama, Office of Redress Administration (ORA) Oral History Project (ddr-densho-1020)

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans with Executive Order 9066. Forty-six years later, Congress sought to belatedly address this injustice with the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which established a process of redress for those harmed by 9066. Housed within the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the …

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