Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tackling the case of another relocated Japanese-American, the Justices ruled, 6-to-3, that the Army had had a right to evacuate all Japanese and Nisei in a time of national emergency. Said the court: "Exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes ... is inconsistent with our basic Government institutions. But . . . hardships are part...
...almost two years, the right of the Government to shuffle citizens around at will had been a burning constitutional issue. But by the time the Supreme Court ruled this week, the question was academic. Day before, the Army had rescinded its mass evacuation order, told the loyal Japanese and Nisei they could return. Invasion, the Army explained, is no longer "a substantial possibility...
...Hood River, Ore. (pop. 3.280), American Legionnaires daubed paint on their servicemen's honor roll to obliterate the names of 16 Nisei soldiers...
...town for their professional haircuts because local barbershops barred them. Last week Oberlin College students and faculty, some of whom had let their hair grow in protest against this discrimination, were getting haircuts beside Negroes in their own cooperative shop. The barber: Jerry Mizuiri, a Nisei...
...Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies -including British, Canadians, Poles, Greeks, Indians, Palestinians, Brazilians, French, Tunisians. Senegalese, and U.S. (white, Negro and Nisei) troops-were making headway. If Rimini falls, the way will lie open into the Po valley and the Gothic Line will be flanked. Last week in the course of this fighting, another nation was precipitated, almost unnoticed, into the abyss...