She was evacuated from Sacramento, California, in 1942. Scanned by Utah State University Library Digital Initiatives staff using Epson Expression 10000 scanner, grayscale, at 800 dpi. Mitsuye Endo did not test the curfew and exclusion orders that preceeded internment, nor did she risk the criminal penalties provided in Public Law 503. Mitsuye Endo, hereinafter designated as the appellant, is an American citizen of Japanese ancestry. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library Mitsuye Endo as a young woman (Image in the public domain) A young woman of World War II M itsuye Endo was born in Sacramento, California, on May 10, 1920. Endo participated in a landmark Supreme Court case challenging the right of the government to hold citizens in camps like Topaz.ĭigital Image © 2012 Utah State Historical Society. Topaz Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah) Japanese Americans Japanese Americans-California-1940-1950 World War II-United States World War II Nurses Some images were used in the documentary as representations of actual events occurring at Topaz. well as Mitsuye Endos case, challenged the constitutionality of exclusion and incarceration, and paved the way for the redress movement of the 1970s and. Very little is known about the woman behind the case because she was a very private personshe granted only one interview during the course of her life. filed a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Mitsuye Endo on July 12, 1942. Mitsuye Maureen Endo Tsutsumi ( April 14, 2006) was an American woman of Japanese descent who was placed in a internment camp during World War II. MaMitsuye Endo was a plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945. The Supreme Court subsequently ordered her. In reaching that conclusion, we do not come to the underlying constitutional issues which have been argued.Images and descriptions were collected and provided by KUED in the making of their 1987 documentary about the Topaz Internment Camp. These include lawsuits filed by Mitsuye Endo, Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi. But a woman, Mitsuye Endo, who obediently went to camp and then filed for a writ of habeas corpus, won her case. Mitsuye Endo did not challenge the curfew or ' evacuation. Her petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleges that she is a loyal and law-abiding citizen of the United States, that no charge has been made against her, that she is being unlawfully detained, and that she is confined in the Relocation Center under armed guard and held there against her will…įirst. We are of the view that Mitsuye Endo should be given her liberty. Endo, Ex Parte Legal case testing the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II. On February 19, 1942, the President promulgated Executive Order No. The test case of U.S.-born Mitsuye Endo resulted in this Supreme Court ruling that authorized release of Japanese Americans from wartime incarceration. It need be only briefly recapitulated here. The history of the evacuation of Japanese aliens and citizens of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific coastal regions, following the Japanese attack on our Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the declaration of war against Japan on December 8, 1941, 55 Stat. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court…
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