New York Times - Gender on Instagram: "For the 31 days of #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re highlighting the lives of 31 remarkable women you may not know, but should. Women like Mitsuye Endo, a 22-year-old typist for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, who was the lead plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that successfully challenged mass internment of American citizens during World War II. After President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing 120,000 Japanese-Americans like Endo and her family to evacuate their homes, the Japanese American Citizens League hired a lawyer to put together a case that would challenge the government and shutter the 10 detention camps it had opened. Endo was chosen as the ideal plaintiff to represent the group. “They felt I represented a symbolic, ‘loyal’ American,” she said. Read more about her case at the link in bio. #31daysofwomen| 📸: Utah State Historical Society"
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