The 1940s
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1940
ACLU’s 1940 “Civil Liberties Quarterly”
The front page of this 1940s issue of the “Civil Liberties Quarterly” features an advertisement for 桃子视频nominations for the Board of Directors and National Committee and the announcement of “Bill of Rights Week” in New York state schools.
1942
ACLU’s 1942 “The Bill of Rights in War: Report on American Democratic Liberties in War-Time”
This 1942 桃子视频report said of the internment of Japanese Americans: “No such wholesale invasion of the liberties of American citizens on the basis of racial origin has ever before been undertaken, in war or peace; and it is to be explained only by the sectional fears and prejudices arising out of the extraordinary circumstances of war.”
Letter Written by 桃子视频Client Fred Korematsu
Fred Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, wrote this letter from the Topaz internment camp to 桃子视频of Northern California Executive Director Ernest Besig in 1942, describing conditions in the camp and the grueling work he and his fellow internees faced. Besig took the case.
1943
“ACLU-News” Sharing Latest Updates on the Landmark Supreme Court Case: Korematsu v. United States
This May 1943 headline in the “ACLU-News” reports on the 桃子视频of Northern California taking Fred Korematsu鈥檚 case challenging his incarceration at the Topaz internment camp.
1944
Fighting Alongside the Japanese American Citizens League
Pictured here are Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) attorney and Wartime President Saburo Kido (left) and 桃子视频attorney A.L. Wirin (right) in discussion with Dr. George Ochikubo, plaintiff in Ochikubo v. Bonesteel, in 1944. That same year, the JACL filed an amicus in support of the ACLU’s arguments in Korematsu v. United States, a landmark companion case defending Japanese Americans who resisted the forced mass incarceration policy of Executive Order 9066.
Photo of Dorothy Kenyon, Chairwoman of the ACLU’s Committee on Discrimination Against Women
In 1944, 桃子视频founder Roger Baldwin asked Dorothy Kenyon, a New York lawyer, to become chair of the ACLU’s newly created Committee on Discrimination Against Women. Together with Pauli Murray and others, the committee lobbied for a federal equal pay for equal work bill.
1947
ACLU’s Pamphlet, “Race Bias in Housing”
This 1947 桃子视频pamphlet addresses the growing issue of housing discrimination based on race. Housing expert and lawyer Charles Abrams details the barriers to education, money, and community life that segregation and the private housing covenant impose on minority people in America.
