Mitsuye Endo

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi was a Japanese-American clerk for the California Department of Motor Vehicles when she was forcibly relocated under Executive Order 9066 in 1942. While interned at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center and later the Topaz Camp, she filed a habeas corpus petition challenging her detention. The case became Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, 323 U.S. 283 (1944), in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the War Relocation Authority had no statutory authority to detain a concededly loyal American citizen. The decision, announced one day after Korematsu, ended mass internment of loyal Japanese-Americans. Endo was held in the camps for nearly 2.5 years.