HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Santa Barbara City College, Issei, Sayonara
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Angeles " issei-owned businesses were gardening and yard-care operations. Americans were in professional fields: by 1960, japanese americans had worked as professionals for more than 30 per cent, by nearly every measure, by the early 1960s, japanese americans had made great strides. Important events in the 1960s brought about change in the lives of. United states: the civil-rights movement was the second event that brought reform for. Japanese americans: this was african americans " decade-long attempt to gain equal rights after witnessing centuries of white american slavery, sexism, and violence. States: during this period of great social change, many japanese americans began to question why the us government had never acknowledged the internment blame, to draw attention to the issue, a group of about 150 mostly young japanese. It was their first exposure to a little-known event for many young.
