Word: nisei
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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...
...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...
...first group soon got a real test. Formed up as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were sent to North Africa, attached to the 34th Division. To keep them a racial unit the War Department sent along 500 reserve Nisei to augment the 100th's normal battalion strength of 800. The reserves were soon needed...
...action at Belvedere, for which the 100th was officially cited, the divisional commander had to commit the battalion sooner than expected, to outflank a tough German position. With little artillery support the Nisei cut behind the position of some 500 Germans, knocked it to pieces, killed, wounded and captured 271 Germans...