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In 1943, Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.
In this webinar, Genelec's Andy Bensley and Darren Rose discuss how Andy converted an 'echoey, fluttery' spare room in his new house into a real world.
InA Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States, Gordon’s brother James and nephew Lane brought together his prison diaries and voluminous wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v.
United States, the Supreme Court case that ultimately vacated his conviction.
In this guest post, Lane Hirabayashi discusses why the first hand accounts written at the time of Gordon’s detention offer a powerful testament to his plight.
Examining the nature of memory and oral history more broadly, Hirabayashi explores how diaries and letters provide a very different kind of evidence than recollections and testimony taken long after the fact.
In the mid-2000s my father, Jim, asked my aunt Susan if he could borrow the diaries and letters that Gordon had written during the war years.
Jim simultaneously beg