| Gordon Hirabayashi |
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Although at first he considered accepting Japanese Internment he ultimately became one of three to openly defy it. He joined the Quaker -run American Friends Service Committee to that end and religiously would be linked to the Quakers. In 1942 he turned himself into the FBI and was sentenced to 90 days in prison. He did this in part to appeal the verdict all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with the backing of the ACLU . However the court unanimously ruled against him in Hirabayashi V. United States in 1943 . Curiously they would not pay for him being sent to prison so he hitchhiked to the Arizona prison where he was sentenced to reside. Once there they stated they lacked the sufficient papers as he was two weeks late. They considered letting him just go home, but he feared this would look suspicious. After that they made the suggestion he could go out for dinner and a movie which would give them time to find his papers. He agreed to this and, by the time he finished doing so, they had found the relevant paperwork. After the war he went on to earn a B.A. , M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Washington. He taught in Beirut , Cairo , and then settled at the University Of Alberta from 1959 to 1983 . After that he was active in human rights and got his conviction overturned in 1987 . As a sociologist he has done studies of Jordan and the Russian Doukhobors in British Columbia , Egypt ian village political awareness, Jordan ian social change, and Asian-Americans . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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