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Title
A.L. Wirin, George Ochikubo, and Saburo Kido representing the Japanese American Citizens League
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1944
1944
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
A.L. Wirin and Saburo Kido filed a brief together in 1944 representing the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), in Korematsu v. United States. Ochikubo, a dentist, was the plaintiff in Ochikubo v. Bonesteel, a 1944 federal lawsuit challenging the Western Defense Command's continued exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Kido was an attorney and the wartime president of the JACL. Wirin was an ACLU attorney and chief counsel for the JACL during and after World War II.
A. L. Wirin (left), Dr. George Ochikubo (center) and Saburo Kido (right)
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/13030/hb0n39n66z
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Ochikubo, George, 1911-
Kido, Saburo, 1902-1977
Japanese American Citizens' League
Wirin, A.L., 1900-1978
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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