The Fair Play Committee, a group of Japanese Americans, resisted being drafted from a concentration camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, in the largest organized protest against incarceration in U.S. history. This act of defiance led to a landmark trial and the resisters spent two years in prison, subsequently being erased from official Japanese American history for the next 50 years.
Conscience and the Constitution
The documentary "Resistance at Tule Lake" tells the story of Japanese Americans who resisted the U.S. government's forced relocation and internment during World War II, ultimately refusing to be drafted from the Heart Mountain, Wyoming concentration camp until their rights as U.S. ...
