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Official Apology from the United States Government

In October of 1990, George Bush signed this official apology to the Japanese American internees and their families for the pain and hardship they had suffered during and after World War II due to Internment.

This apology followed the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the marked victory of the Redress and Reparations Campaign that these four women were so heavily involved in. It is another achievement that they very much helped to attain, as the government was proven to be unquestionably responsible for a dire violation of civil liberties of Japanese American citizens, and following the issuance of redress, also included a written apology for these actions.

Source: Densho Digital Archive, http://archive.densho.org/main.aspx. Photo/Document Collections: Manzanar Historical Site Collection.