Gordon Hirabayashi: Conscientious Objector and Civil Rights Activist | The Arizona Collection

Just outside of Tucson, Arizona, there is a sign on the road to Mount Lemmon that reads Gordon Hirabayashi, previously the site of a prison camp during World War II. Gordon Hirabayashi was an inmate. Hirabayashi was one of only three Japanese Americans to openly defy the U.S. government when it forcibly interned nearly 70,000 American citizens of Japanese descent into harsh and isolated detention camps. This is the story of how he went from prisoner to civil rights hero.