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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 42 (1977)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

2 people
Richard Kluger りちゃーど くるーがー Winner

An accusatory history of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans that combines government documents with lived memory. It challenged the justification for internment and later influenced the redress movement.

A definitive record that uncovers and preserves a forgotten injustice.

351 pages
Japanese American historyinternmentwartime policyhuman rights
Michi Nishiura Weglyn みち うぇぐりん Winner

A large-scale history of the legal struggle that led to the Brown decision, moving from post-slavery segregation to the Supreme Court's deliberations. It is a standard reference for understanding the legal foundations of the civil rights movement.

An exhaustive work that tells not just the ruling, but the long struggle behind it.

823 pages
civil rightsconstitutional lawschool segregationthe Supreme Court