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Resistance is about U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry who challenged the
constitutionality of their mass, racially based, wartime internment in Wyoming by
demanding their freedom as a condition of their conscription into the U.S. Army. The
author examines this controversial event and develops the legal theory that the
Selective Service Act did not permit young men who were imprisoned even to register
for the draft.
This photograph shows 63 draft resisters in the federal District Court, Cheyenne,
Wyoming, June 16, 1944.
Three of these have written their accounts of their trial and subsequent
imprisonment at MacNeil Island, Washington. In addition, one of the leaders of
the resistance writes of their separate trial, imprisonment, and eventual victory
and release on appeal. Resistance also describes the opposition to the resisters
by other Japanese-Americans. It concludes with a discussion of a twenty-first
century manifestation of this controversy.
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Background on William Hohri
William Minoru Hohri was born in San Francisco in 1927, was interned at the Manzanar
War Relocation Center in 1942, graduated from Manzanar High School and "relocated" to
"free America" in 1944. He earned a B.A. from the College, University of Chicago in
1949. He worked at a variety of jobs and became involved in the movement for
Japanese-American redress in 1979 through 1989.
In 1984, he wrote "Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese-American
Redress," which was published by Washington State University Press in 1988. Now in
Lomita, California, he writes a column, "Rambler's Nemesis," for The Rafu Shimpo,
a Japanese-American daily newspaper.
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