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Title
Letter from Fred Korematsu to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, 1942
Creator
Korematsu, Fred, 1919-2005: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
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 Fred Korematsu to Ernest Besig, written from Topaz incarceration camp. Korematsu writes he is working for a well company, and may take a job outside of camp on a sugar beet farm for a few months. He mentions that it snowed and is very cold.
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
2 pages, 9 x 5.5 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
MS-3580-1387_0027
chs_ms3580_0137
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/48622
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
World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs
Place
Delta, Utah
Incarceration camps--Topaz (Central Utah)
Source
California Historical Society
Relation
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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