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FORT WORTH — Threedecades after trying toright a wrong — and apol-ogize to Japanese-Ameri-cans incarcerated duringWorld War II — formerU.S. House Speaker JimWright will be honored forhis effort on the issue.

Wright, 90, will bepresented with the firstGov. Ralph L. Carr Awardfor Courage tonight inWashington, D.C., for hiswork to pass what ulti-mately became the CivilLiberties Act of 1988.

“I proposed legislationto acknowledge to thesepeople, citizens of theUnited States who wereincarcerated, that we wereready to resume our hon-or,” said Wright, a formerDemocratic U.S. Speakerof the House and House

Majority Leader. “I thinkwe’ve done that by ac-knowledging the wrong ofit and making restitu-tion.”

Wright will receive theaward — designed to hon-or a person “who embod-ies the principles and sac-rifices” of Carr, a formerColorado governor whoencouraged residents inhis home state to welcomedisplaced Japanese eva-

ing the war as militarymembers moved into thearea.

Around 120,000 Japa-nese and Japanese-Amer-icans were affected —nearly two-thirds of themAmerican-born citizens.

“We weren’t keepingwith the constitutionalrights and provisions oflaw ... in a time of severecrisis,” Wright said. “Wewere certainly in a periodof anxiety.

“But I had known allthese years that it wasn’tin keeping with the pledgeof liberty and justice forall.”

The measure heworked on for years wasultimately signed into lawin 1988 by President Ro-nald Reagan, giving for-mer detainees $20,000and a letter of apologyfrom the United Statesgovernment.

Anna Tinsley, 817-390-7610

Twitter: @annatinsley

cuees — tonight duringthe 2013 Japanese Ameri-can Citizens League Na-tional Convention.

“We recognize thatSpeaker Wright’s leader-ship resulted in the pas-sage of the Civil LibertiesAct of 1988 ... the firstpresidential apology to anentire group of Ameri-cans,” said Priscilla Ou-chida, executive directorof the Japanese AmericanCitizens League, thelargest and oldest Asian-American civil rightsgroup.

The group is honoringWright for his work thatbegan in 1983 to formallypropose recommenda-tions for the Commissionon Wartime Relocationand Internment of Civil-ians.

The measure formallyapologized to Japanese-Americans forced out oftheir homes and into in-ternment camps, or “warrelocation centers,” dur-

Ex-Speaker Wright honored7 He worked to giverestitution to Japanese-Americans put in camps.

By Anna M. Tinsleyatinsley@star-telegram.com

Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis

Jim Wright will receive anaward named for Colorado’sgovernor during World War II.

FORT WORTH — Jim Aus-tin is looking forward tohearing great zydeco musicthis weekend.

“I’m really excitedabout that culture becauseit has a rich cowboy ethnicfeel to it,” said Austin,board president of theNational MulticulturalWestern HeritageMuseum.

A zydeco music festivalis part of a weekend-longNational Day of the Amer-ican Cowboy celebration,which begins today andcontinues through Sunday.Eight legendary cowboysand two cowgirls will beinducted into the mu-seum’s Hall of Fame.

The museum focuses onthe people and practicesthat created the uncom-mon culture of the Amer-ican West and contributedto rodeo history. And that’swhat drives the selectionof Hall of Fame inductees.

Unlike her better-known movie characters —Jackie Brown and FoxyBrown — Pam Grier hasloved the Western lifestylesince she was a girl in Den-ver. She was the honoraryhost of last year’s event atthe Pam Grier CommunityGarden and will be induct-ed into the Hall of Famethis year.

Unfortunately, Grierwon’t be able to accept thehonor in person, eventspokeswoman Vivian Ful-lerlove said.

“She’ll still be inducted,but she has some issuesthat prevent her from at-tending,” she said.

Another inductee, WaltWilley, brings Wild Bill!An Evening With JamesButler Hickok to the mix.With credits that includedaytime soaps, stand-upcomedy and satire, Willeyis being inducted “becauseof what he’s doing to keepthe Western culture alivewith this one-man show,”said Gloria Austin, the mu-

seum’s executive directorand co-founder.

Willey said he is honor-ed to be inducted “becauseit’s for this show and cer-tainly not for me.”

“I’ve never been a cow-boy. They’re also inductingHickok at the same time,which is a little ironic. Hedidn’t much like cowboysor Texans.”

That’s understandable. Cowboys and Texans

would have been amongHickok’s nightmares as hewent about taming theKansas frontier towns ofHays City and Abilene, amuseum news release said.

Other posthumous in-ductees include profes-sional rodeo cowboy andlivestock owner Floyd BuckWyatt, who originated theknee-jerking techniquestill used by bull and broncriders; Col. AllenAllensworth, who wasborn a slave but escapedand distinguished himselfin military service, educa-tion, the ministry and mu-nicipal development; andWoody Strode, an actorwhose roles included anEthiopian king in The Ten

Commandments.

Living inductees in-clude watercolorist BurlWashington; FredWhitfield, the firstAfrican-American to winthe Professional RodeoCowboys Association’scalf-roping world cham-pionship; Mollie TaylorStevenson Jr., the womanwho grew up and still liveson one of the oldest black-owned ranches in Texasand who helped establishthe American CowboyMuseum in Houston; andLawrence Homer “BigBuckle” Coffee, the mancredited with breaking theprofessional rodeo colorbarrier.

The zydeco music fes-tival will include StepRideau and the ZydecoOutlaws.

Throw in vendors withexceptional red beans andrice, catfish and crawdads,and you’ve got a winner.

Pioneers of theWestern way willjoin Hall of Fame 7 National Day of theAmerican Cowboy will becelebrated all weekend.

By Terry Evanstevans@star-telegram.com

Courtesy photoPam Grier

ABCWalt Willey

If you go

Today9 a.m.-3 p.m.: Free WesternHeritage Symposium, Nation-al Multicultural WesternHeritage Museum, 3400Mount Vernon Ave.7 p.m.: Hall of Fame Induc-tion and Banquet, Worthing-ton Renaissance Hotel, 200Main St.

Saturday1 p.m.: Wild Bill Hickok one-man show, River Ranch Stock-yards, 500 NE 23rd St.4 p.m.: Zydeco music festival,River Ranch Stockyards

Sunday7 p.m.: Hall of Fame Rodeo,Cowtown Coliseum, 121 E.Exchange Ave.

Information: 817-922-9999or www.cowboysofcolor.org

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Forest Hill policewere looking for the per-son who shot MashanaHenderson during a par-ty at a residence in the6800 block of TrailwoodDrive, Police Chief DanDennis said in a news re-lease.

Police are askinganyone who witnessedthe shooting or whohas information aboutit to call Forest Hill po-lice at 817-531-5250.

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