Who is Frank Emi from Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans and what is their importance? Strangers_from_a_Different_Shore:_A_History_of_Asian_Americans English & Literature Frank Emi | Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

Frank Emi was a Japanese American with a wife and two children. The twenty-seven year old was placed in the Heart Mountain internment camp in World War II. When officials tried to recruit him for military service, he refused and formed the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee. He was arrested for conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act and served four years at Leavenworth.