President Ronald Reagan signing the 1988 Civil Liberties Act. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988 ) Takuya Maeda is a senior majoring in History. His honors thesis is on the 1988 legislation that granted a formal apology and reparations payments to all individuals who had been unjustly incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II. My hono rs thesis is on the 1988 legislation (Civil Liberties Act) that granted a formal apology and reparations paym ents to all individuals who had been unjustly incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II. While both the internment and pursuit of reparations has been well-documented, there has been comparatively little written about the actual legislation. In particular, the portion of the legislation creating a public education fund to create greater awareness of the internment, called the Civil Liberties Public Educat...