A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi V. United States

by Gordon Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, James A. Hirabayashi, et al.

Book Overview

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and voluminous wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States, the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295992700
• ISBN13: 9780295992709
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher