government, Purcell won an order from the Attorney General's office to reinstate the wrongfully terminated employees and provide backpay for time lost between the termination and evacuation. Endo and her family was later transferred to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center 300 miles north of Sacramento in Newell, California at the Oregon border on June 19, 1942.Īfter the closure of the Japanese Internment Camps by the U.S.
Walerga, 10–15 miles outside of Sacramento on May 15, 1942. Mitsuye Endo, herself was incarcerated, along with her entire family, first transported to the Sacramento Assembly Center, i.e. Each appellant, including Mitsuye Endo, contributed $10 to Purcell's legal fund.Īs the employment lawsuits against the California State Personnel Board were pending in court, Purcell's clients were evacuated out of Sacramento to internment camps. Purcell agreed and filed each employee's appeal. Purcell to represent them on their appeals. On behalf of the 63 terminated employees who were eligible to file an appeal, Sumio Miyamoto, a dismissed employee, along with the Japanese American Citizens League, requested for San Francisco attorney James C. The State's cause for termination of each of its Japanese American employees was based on a blanket of false charges ranging from being a Japanese citizen to subscribing to a Japanese newspaper. By Febru(eight days after Executive Order 9066 was signed and issued), the California Board of Equalization as directed by the State Personnel Board (SPB) had terminated all of California's civil servants of Japanese descent, totaling over 314 employees, including Mitsuye Endo. In response to the Pearl Harbor attack, the California Legislature adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 on January 19, 1942, which effectively barred qualified U.S.-born employees of Japanese descent from obtaining civil service employment with the State. The California State Personnel Board lawsuit She was then incarcerated, along with her entire family, first transported to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center 300 miles north of Sacramento.Įndo met her future husband, Kenneth Tsutsumi, after she was moved to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. As a result, Endo was fired from her position as a stenographer at the California Department of Motor Vehicles. After graduating from Sacramento High School in 1938, Endo completed secretarial school and secured a civil service position as a typist with the California State's Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento, as it was one of the very few professions Japanese Americans could enter at the time due to rampant discrimination.įollowing the Decemattack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, compelling the forced evacuation and incarceration of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast in concentration camps.
By 1940, they resided in one of the largest Japantowns in the country, a neighborhood in Sacramento, California that was home to 3,300 residents and hundreds of ethnic businesses. Her older brother Kunio, was drafted into the U.S. She grew up in an English-speaking Methodist home. Her father worked as a fishmonger in a grocery store, her mother a housewife. Mitsuye Endo was born on May 10, 1920, in Sacramento, the second of four children of Jinshiro and Shima (Ota) Endo, Japanese immigrants. government could not continue to detain a citizen who was "concededly loyal" to the United States. Endo filed a writ of habeas corpus that ultimately led to a United States Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Mitsuye "Maureen" Endo Tsutsumi (Japanese: 遠藤 ミツエ, – April 14, 2006) was an American woman of Japanese descent who was placed in an internment camp during World War II.
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