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Description
Letter from Ernest Besig to Frank L. Walters, inquiring about the status of a case - possibly that of Gordon Hirabayashi. Besig mentions a "change of policy on the part of the New York office" with regard to representing Japanese Americans resisting forced removal and incarceration, and states ACLU of Northern California's intention to go ahead with the Korematsu case. The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence 1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript application/pdf
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Japanese American community responses World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Supreme Court cases--Fred Korematsu Activism and involvement--Civil rights Activism and involvement--Civil liberties
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