Word: hirabayashi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Director and former Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), who introduced Hirabayashi, began the evening with a personal story about growing up in Wyoming, when the government rapidly built the Heart Mountain internment camp outside his hometown to hold 11,500 people...
...later turned himself in to the FBI, who offered to drop charges against him if he would "quietly" join the camps. Hirabayashi, a native-born American citizen, refused and took his case to court...
...Hirabayashi came to address an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum about his personal experiences as a nisei(second-generation Japanese-American) after Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Hirabayashi and his family, who lived in Auburn, Wash., were ordered to move to a similar camp...
...Hirabayashi's battle began after he cited the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits seizure of property and violation of rights without due process of law. He wrote a letter of protest and refused to relocate...