Word: hirabayashi
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...Director and former Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), who introduced Hirabayashi, began the evening with a personal story about growing up in Wyoming, when the government rapidly built the Heart Mountain internment camp outside his hometown to hold 11,500 people...
...later turned himself in to the FBI, who offered to drop charges against him if he would "quietly" join the camps. Hirabayashi, a native-born American citizen, refused and took his case to court...
...Hirabayashi and his family, who lived in Auburn, Wash., were ordered to move to a similar camp...
...Hirabayashi's battle began after he cited the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits seizure of property and violation of rights without due process of law. He wrote a letter of protest and refused to relocate...
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...