1970
Henry Miyatake, an engineer in Seattle, begins his advocacy for redress; it eventually evolves into the "Seattle Plan."
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Henry Miyatake and others in the Seattle area began to develop their own plan for redress. They created the Seattle Evacuation and Redress Committee (SERC). Miyatake's "Seattle Plan" basically called for $5,000 plus $10 for every day of incarceration. The funds were to be designated to a special trust fund, with revenues accruing over a 10-year period. The proposed trust fund would be used to make individual redress payments, thereby avoid the appropriation process. Miyatake and others in the Seattle JACL faced an uphill battle with the National JACL.