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Agent Shivers’ Stand Against Hawaiian Japanese American Internment
In 1939, FBI Agent Robert Shivers set up shop there with a tough job: check if Hawaii’s 160,000 Japanese Americans would stay loyal in war.
After Pearl Harbor, when Washington pushed to lock up all Japanese Americans on the mainland, Shivers pushed back.
“I cannot send someone like Sue to concentration camps,” he told his wife. Through trust-building and sheer guts, he cut the list from thousands to just 980 people…