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Description
Public proclamation No. 5 issued by Lieutenant General J. L. DeWitt, announcing regulations to be followed by all Japanese, German, and Italian non-citizens, and all persons of Japanese ancestry. These include specifications for groups of people who may write to apply for exemption from exclusion and forced removal. Proclamation was mailed to the American Civil Liberties Union office in San Francisco. 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
Pamphlets; Leaflets 2 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches application/pdf
World War II--'Enemy Alien' Classification World War II--Administration--Western Defense Command World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders Geographic communities--California--San Francisco
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