Casting Fresh Light On A Quiet Civil Rights Hero
posted by Dan Filler
This week, Is That Legal featured a mini-symposium commemorating the life of the recently deceased Mitsuye Endo, a Japanese-American woman who sued to challenge her internment during WW II. Her case, which came out quite differently than the dark landmark, Korematsu v. United States, may have triggered the end of FDR’s internment policy. Eric Muller, Jerry Kang, Greg Robinson and Patrick Gudridge contributed interesting essays casting fresh light on an overlooked historic individual and Supreme Court decision. Read these posts here, here, here, and here.
June 9, 2006 at 12:10 am
Posted in: Civil Rights
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Ken Arromdee - June 12, 2006 at 10:09 am
She didn’t risk anything in the suit (unlike a black person who chooses to sit in the front of the bus and get arrested, it was not her choice to be subject to internment), and she clearly stood to gain from suing. How is this heroic?
(Though I suppose you could argue that a lawsuit leads to unwanted expense and publicity, and being willing to endure that is heroic.)
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