![]() ![]() 27908, line 620, NARA microfilm publication M1865 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2001). "United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 8 February 2019), Mitsuye Endo, citing roster, family no."United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946," database, FamilySearch ( : 12 December 2014), Mitsuye Endo, 1942-1946 citing Tule Lake, person number 27908A, file 406528, NARA NAID 1263921, National Archives at College Park, Maryland."California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch ( : 27 November 2014), Mitsuye Endo, citing Sacramento, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.↑ " Mitsuye Tsutsumi." Chicago Tribune.She died from cancer in Chicago on April 14, 2006. government could not continue to detain a citizen who was 'concededly loyal' to the United States. Endo filed a writ of habeas corpus that ultimately led to a United States Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Together, they had three surviving children. Mitsuye Maureen Endo Tsutsumi ( April 14, 2006) was an American woman of Japanese descent who was placed in an internment camp during World War II. On May 24, 1945, Mitsuye was released from internment at Topaz, and she moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she married Kenneth Tsutsumi, whom she met while incarcerated at Tule Lake. In 1944, the Supreme Court decided in the Ex parte Endo case named for her that the federal government could not detain a citizen that is "concededly loyal" to the United States. While incarcerated at Tule Lake, Mitsuye filed a petition arguing that detention of someone loyal to the United States was illegal. She was eventually forcibly removed, along with her family, to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center and then to the Topaz War Relocation Center. After the attack on Pearl harbor, she and other Nisei employees were harassed at and eventually dismissed from their jobs because they were of Japanese descent. ![]() “Her story exemplifies a core American principle we are a nation of laws where one person can stand up against an injustice and alter the course of our democracy.Mitsuye Maureen Endo was born in Sacramento, California on May 10, 1920, the daughter of Jinshiro Endo and Shima Ota, both Japanese immigrants from Hiroshima Prefecture.īefore the Pacific War, Mitsuye worked as a clerk for the California Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento. Endo was an ordinary person who made the extraordinary choice to forego her own freedom in order to secure the rights of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned,” wrote Schatz in the letter. Schatz wrote that recognition of Endo’s courage and sacrifice as a civil rights heroine is long overdue. Book Description: InTheGreat Unknown,award-winning historian and journalist Greg Robinson offers a fascinating and compulsively readable collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history: men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields. Mitsue Shikatani also listed as Mitsuye Shikatani (daughter). She was the only woman among them, and the only named plaintiff to win a case. Her family includes Kiu Umetsu (mother nee Kiu Endo), Sekichi Umetsu (father). Two weeks later, the internment camps were closed.Įndo was one of four Japanese Americans who challenged the legality of their relocation and internment all the way to the U.S. It was the day before the Endo decision was handed down. She was imprisoned for three years.īut news of an impending Supreme Court ruling in favor of Endo led to the Roosevelt administration’s decision to rescind Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment camps, on December 17, 1944. Instead, she chose to remain incarcerated to ensure her legal case remained active. ![]()
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