Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to Prof. Harrop A. Freeman, College of William and Mary, March 23, 1944
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Letter from Ernest Besig to Harrop A. Freeman (spelled Harrop S.), asking for Freeman's suggestion on an attorney on the east coast who might argue the Korematsu case before the Supreme Court. Besig explains that the ACLU of Northern California does not agree with the national office with reference to the Korematsu case. He writes: "This branch is opposed to the Executive Order and is opposed on principle to any exclusion by the Military unless marital law is operative." 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
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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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