Korematsu recalled, “My visitor introduced himself as Mr. Ernest Besig of the American Civil Liberties Union. He said his organization was seeking a test case to challenge the constitutionality of the ...

As Korematsu sat in jail in San Francisco, he received a visitor he didn’t know: Ernest Besig, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Northern California chapter.

Ernest Besig, executive director of the San Francisco office of the American Civil Liberties Union, ... Today, Korematsu v. U.S. is often described as one of the Supreme Court’s worst precedents.

While in jail, Korematsu was visited by Ernest Besig, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, who was looking for cases to test the constitutionality of ...

With the tremendous support of Ernest Besig, the executive director of the Northern California American Civil Liberties Union, Korematsu challenged the government’s actions in court. In 1944, in ...

After reading about Korematsu in the paper, Ernest Besig, who founded the American Civil Liberties Union branch in Northern California, wanted to use the 23-year old’s case as a test trial to ...

She said that Ernest Besig, then-director of the ACLU, visited Fred Korematsu in his jail cell after reading about him in the newspaper. Besig asked Korematsu if he would be willing to serve as a test ...

Fred Korematsu’s battle began on May 3, ... His name was Ernest Besig, and he was an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU, explained Besig to a surprised Fred, ...

AMY GOODMAN: Attorney Ernest Besig from the documentary Of Civil Righst and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story, produced by Eric Paul Fournier. Yes, Fred Korematsu died last week at the age of 86.

The evening was getting on, and 85-year-old Fred Korematsu, ... While in jail, he was visited by Ernest Besig of the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, ...

While in jail, Korematsu was visited by Ernest Besig, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, who was looking for cases to test the constitutionality of ...