Word: hirabayashi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simpson played a segment of the documentary A Personal Matter, which summarized Hirabayashi's struggle. According to the film, Hirabayashi's first act of civil disobedience was when, as an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he refused to obey a curfew prohibiting German, Italian and Japanese aliens, as well as Japanese-Americans, to be outside after...
...obeyed the curfew at first. It was when my [non-Japanese] dorm-mates took it upon themselves to be my time keepers, a thought occurred to me," Hirabayashi said. "Why am I running home and my roommates are not? I turned around and went back. I had work...
...only 40 years later, when Hirabayashi's friend Peter Irons discovered evidence proving the government had fabricated evidence and lied to the Supreme Court, that Hirabayashi appealed his case yet again, winning this time in Hirabayashiv. United States...
...seem I was determined to battle to the hilt from the beginning, but it was something that grew," Hirabayashi said...
...Hirabayashi concluded by stressing the importance of faith in the Constitution. "For a while, I thought the Constitution had failed," said Hirabayashi...