One of the highest presidential awards in the White House will be given posthumously to a lady from Sacramento who was instrumental in the termination of Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Born to Japanese immigrant parents in 1920, Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi was just 22 years old when she filed a lawsuit against the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, which ultimately reached a federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on December 18, 1944, that devoted Japanese Americans could not be imprisoned without justification.
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