Mitsuye endo biography of william
Mitsuye endo biography of william
Mitsuye endo biography of william hamilton.
Mitsuye Endo
Japanese American Woman involved in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo case
Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi (Japanese: 遠藤 美津江,[1] May 10, &#; April 14, ) was an American woman of Japanese descent who was unjustly incarcerated during World War II in concentration camps sponsored by the War Relocation Authority.[2][3] Endo filed a writ of habeas corpus that ultimately led to a United States Supreme Court ruling that the U.S.
government could not continue to detain a citizen who was "concededly loyal" to the United States.[4]
On January 2, , she was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for her role in the case challenging the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans in concentration camps.[5]
Early life
Mitsuye Endo was born on May 10, , in Sacramento, the second of four children of Jinshiro and Shima (Ota) Endo, Japanese immigrants.
Her father worked as a fishmonger in a grocery store, her mother a housewife.[6] She grew