Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR)

231 East Third Street, Suite G104
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-680-3484 tel
ncrrla@yahoo.com
www.ncrr-la.org

Area of Inerest:
Political Advocacy and Empowerment

Ethnic Community Served:
Japanese

Description:
In 2000, the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR) decided to adopt its non-profit name, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, with the same acronym, NCRR. The new name better reflects the ongoing work of NCRR: active participation in the broad areas of civil rights as well as continued commitment to redress for Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans.

NCRR was founded in 1980 by Nikkei (Japanese Americans) from across the country. They held the firm belief that our community had to come together to fight for proper redress for what our government did to Nikkei during World War II.

The members were united around five founding principles:

• To call for $25,000 monetary compensation for each individual who suffered deprivation of liberty during the War;
• To push for a community trust fund to repair at least some of the damage to our communities brought on by the exclusion and internment;
• To work toward overturning the wartime court cases of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Min Yasui;
• To educate the general public about this tragedy so as to prevent such events from happening again;
• To support similar campaigns against injustice.

Staff:
Richard Katsuda - Co-Chairperson
Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka- Co-Chairperson
Kay Ochi - Co-Chairperson

Source:
http://www.ncrr-la.org

Submitted by:
AIA Staff - RG