Hirabayashi v. United States

Hirabayashi v. United States On 21 June 1943, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a wartime curfew imposed during the Japanese relocation was constitutional, even though only persons of Japanese background were restricted; it held that national security justified imposing a curfew on one race in wartime when enemies of the same nationality might commit sabotage or espionage.

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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Hirabayashi v. United States," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2018, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DBCYKSLFHI88X3C.

MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "Hirabayashi v. United States." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2018. www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DBCYKSLFHI88X3C.

Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'Hirabayashi v. United States' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2018, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DBCYKSLFHI88X3C.