Letter from Harrop A. Freeman, College of William and Mary, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, April 14, 1944
Creator
Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993: author
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Letter from Harrop A. Freeman to Ernest Besig, suggesting attorneys Wendell Willke, Homer Cummings, Benjamin, and Grenville Clark as possible options to represent the Korematsu case in the Supreme Court. 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.
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text
Format
Correspondence 1 page, 7 x 8 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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