Read the excerpt below from interview with marielle tsukamoto and answer the question that follows.
i want people to know that she was a great teacher who loved her family and her country. she had the courage to speak
out and do something about the injustice. she worked hard to pass redress. when a group of people feel they have been
treated unfairly by the government, the us constitution guarantees you the right to redress the government. the
japanese americans did that and because the civil liberties act of 1988 was passed by congress, our constitution is
strong again. it was weakened by executive order 9066 when president roosevelt ordered 120,000 innocent japanese
americans into internment camps. mary tsukamoto always took the initiative to follow her beliefs. she was a respected
author (she wrote the book, we the people, a story of internment in america), a political activist and someone who
worked for world peace. she was selected by the california state senate as a notable californian,
what is the general topic that the paragraph concerns?