Letter from Clifford Forster, American Civil Liberties Union, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, July 10, 1942
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Letter from Clifford Forster to Ernest Besig, informing Besig of objection from the national ACLU board to his demurrer in the Korematsu case. Forster includes handwritten note stating agreement with Besig. Stamped "confidential." 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, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript and handwritten 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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