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Title
Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to Frank L. Walters, Esq., September 10, 1942
Creator
Besig, Ernest: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-09-10
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and other parties, was not transferred to the California Historical Society (CHS). Permission for reproduction or publication of materials in this collection beyond that allowed by fair use must be secured from the copyright holder.
Description
Letter from Ernest Besig to Frank L. Walters, stating that Judge Welsh had not yet filed an opinion in the Korematsu case. Besig provides overview of Korematsu's status as a Unites States citizen, and writes: "Mr. Collins and I went to Tanforan Assembly Center and had Korematsu sign the Notice of Appeal, and also an affidavit to support an order to allow the appellant to prosecute the appeal in forma pauperis."
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
Identifier
MS-3580-1386_0014
chs_ms3580_0034
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/48675
Language
English
Subject
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
Place
San Francisco, California
Source
California Historical Society
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project; California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt009nf073/
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Records--Case Files, 1934-1993--Korematsu, Fred, 1942-1946

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