Topaz closed on Oct 31, 1945.
One of its incarcerees, Mitsuye Endo, helped make that happen.

Her case went to the Supreme Court.
She won.
The camps closed.

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She lived quietly. Then she changed our history quietly. And on this day in 2006, she passed away quietly.

May Mitsuye Endo, who took on the U.S. government to win one of the most important civil liberties cases in history, rest in power.

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They fired her because she was “Japanese.” But she fired back.

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In 1942, the California DMV fired 400 employees because they were “Japanese.” And you thought your DMV was bad.

April 3, 1942: California terminated 400 civil servants. All of them Japanese Americans.

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