Sarah J Conti
Yellow-Billed Magpie - Mitsuye Endo, 2025
Ceramic, Underglaze, Ribbon
8 x 15 x 7.50 in
$515
Mitsuye Endo 1920-2006
An American woman of Japanese descent, Mitsuye Endo was unjustly incarcerated during World War II in concentration camps sponsored by the War Relocation Authority. Endo filed a writ of habeas corpus that ultimately led to a United States Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. government could not continue to detain a citizen who was "concededly loyal" to the United States. Two weeks after the Supreme Court’s Endo decision, president Roosevelt officially ended west coast exclusion.
Yellow-billed Magpie populations have declined by an estimated 2.9% per year between 1968 and 2015, resulting in a cumulative decline of 76% during that period.