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Japanese American Civil Rights Hero Dies

01/25/201601/05/2012 by Connie

Gordon Hirabayashi refused to go to a WWII internment camp in 1942. He died on Monday at the age of 93. Read more about his story here.

Gordon Hirabayashi, center, in 1999 at the former prison camp in Arizona where he was held for about a year. The camp was later renamed for him.

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Categories history Tags civil rights, internment camps, japan, WWII
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