President Johnson: Internment Of Japanese Americans

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President Johnson would put his best effort to persuade the lawmakers to terminate the internment of Japanese Americans. Johnson says, “There is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of Americans. Extend the rights of citizenship of this land…I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy… I urge every member… of all… colors… to join me in that cause.” This quote conveys that Johnson is fully against the act of injustice, and he won’t sit back to watch citizens be segregated. The quote proves how Johnson would try to advise the public that discrimination against another race is fully wrong. In “Internment,” Corralled, they are herded inland… in this stark landscape… on the double

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