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Overlooked No More: Mitsuye Endo, a name linked to justice for Japanese Americans and who was interned in Utah

(Utah State Historical Society via The New York Times) In an undated image provided by the Utah State Historical Society, Mitsuye Endo, who was a typist for the California Department of Motor Vehicles when she was forced to move to an internment camp, in 1944. Endo was the lead plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that successfully challenged mass internment of American citizens during World War II.