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In California, an increasing number of Japanese, Jewish and other non-Black groups are expressing their support for reparations to Black American residents of the state who are descendants of enslaved people. Around 100 grassroot organizations, motivated in part by the efforts of the Japanese American Bar Association and John M. Langston Bar Association of Los Angeles, have endorsed the work of the task force, and are calling on California to compensate Black residents for historical wrongdoings...

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By Antonio Ray Harvey | California BlackMedia Shown left to right Ron Wakabayashi, Miya Iwataki, Mitch Maki, and attorney Donald Tamaki at the California

Lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> "there are too many and theyre -- >> right. >> -- taking our jobs," and the usual. >> "some of them are buying our land." >> things got really bad for the japanese, of course, after pearl harbor with -- >> yes. >> -- it was an internment program. >> so they had a list of all the names. >> right. kids, too. >> yes. children, too. they all had to go walking to the train station in downtown san jose. my mother did say that at the beginning, before they were put in th...

One internment camp specifically for "enemy aliens" was on San Francisco property, set up in 1942 next to a municipal golf course just south of the city proper.

Dark chapter in american history. its also a day of remembrance for descendants of thousands of japanese americans forcibly interned during the second world war. cbs nancy chen spo teso.ke >> the army provided fleets of vans to transport household belongings. >> reporter: eight decades have passed. >> and buses to move the people to assembly centers. >> it was based on racial prejudice and hate. >> reporter: but the pain is still raw for june aiochi berk, a u.s. citizen and one of 120,000 japane...

Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and Fairplex in Pomona, then known as the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, were both Civilian Assembly Centers, temporary camps where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government were sent to Detention Camps. Korematsu lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ru...

>> kurt: in the beginning of the twentieth century there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> anthony: "there are too many, and theyre taking our jobs," and the usual -- >> kurt: "some of them are buying our land." >> anthony: things got really bad for the japanese of course, after pearl harbor with -- it was an interment program. >> kurt: so they had a list of all the names. >> anthony: kids too! >> kurt: yes, children too. they all had to go walking to the train station in downtown san jose. ...

Of other japanese americans, were interned in camps during world war ii. >> kurt: in the beginning of the twentieth century there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> anthony: "there are too many, and theyre taking our jobs," and the usual -- >> kurt: "some of them are buying our land." >> anthony: things got really bad for the japanese of course, after pearl harbor with -- it was an interment program. >> kurt: so they had a list of all the names. >> anthony: kids too! >> kurt: yes, children to...

And his family, like thousands of other japanese americans, were interned in camps during world war ii. >> kurt: in the beginning of the twentieth century there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> anthony: "there are too many, and theyre taking our jobs," and the usual -- >> kurt: "some of them are buying our land." >> anthony: things got really bad for the japanese of course, after pearl harbor with -- it was an interment program. >> kurt: so they had a list of all the names. >> anthony: kids...