Frank S. Emi
Male, Deceased Person
1916 – 2010
Who was Frank S. Emi?
Frank S. Emi was a leading figure of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, an ad hoc group who protested the drafting of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Emi argued it was unconstitutional to conscript men who had been stripped of their civil rights into military service and advised Nisei who received draft orders to demand they be released from camp before reporting for duty. He was convicted of conspiring to violate the Selective Service Act and served eighteen months of a four-year sentence in federal prison. For many years, Emi and his fellow draft resisters were condemned as troublemakers by the Japanese American Citizens League and the larger Japanese American community, but his legacy has more recently come to be seen as an important example of civil disobedience.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1916
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Frank Emi
- Ethnicity
- Japanese American
- Education
- Los Angeles City College
- Died
- Dec 1, 2010
West Covina
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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