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Letter from Roger Baldwin to Homer L. Morris, regarding funds being raised by the American Friends Service Committee to support attorney Frank L. Walters argument of Gordon Hirabayashi's case in the Supreme Court. Baldwin quotes Joseph Conard's letter (chs_ms3580_0196) warning of Walters' poor performance representing Hirabayashi in the Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco. Baldwin writes: "I should think it would be wise now, in the event of an adverse decision which is expected, to see that somebody else than Mr. Walters argues the case in the Supreme Court. We should be very glad to make recommendations if you wish." The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), in which the United States Supreme court unanimously ruled that the federal government could not indefinitely detain United States citizens who were loyal to the government. Files include documents related to the Gordon Hirabayashi Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States.
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text
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Correspondence 1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript application/pdf
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Supreme Court cases--Mitsuye Endo 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--Gordon Hirabayashi Activism and involvement--Civil rights Activism and involvement--Civil liberties Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation--Legal cases
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