ASIAN 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: American Civil Liberties Union, Minoru Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi
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Government decided to intern people on the west coast but not in hawaii. Japanese americans did not receive a letter, there were only posted. Given 48 hours to 1 month to evacuate. Had a ,000 worth hotel, sold it for . Lawyer and reserve officer, and thought the imprisoning of japanese american was not right. Decided to challenge the curfew, hoping he could get support from american civil liberty union. He wanted his case to go to supreme court, he did not get support. Stayed at the library and tried to break curfew. He went to police to tell them he broke curfew. Went to court and said to arrest him for breaking curfew. Underwent plastic surgery, wanted to stay with his italian girlfriend. He got arrested because someone tipped the police. Cases where sick children were left behind had family had to go to camps. There was nothing, the things they had was what they could carry.
