Hold These Truths
Play by Jeanne Sakata 

Hold These Truths- a play by Jeanne Sakata
Montgomery County Theater February 6 - March 2, 2025

This show by Jeanne Sakata, showcases the inspiring true story of civil rights hero, Gordon Hirabayashi. Gordon, who was a Quaker, courageously refused to comply with the U.S. government’s relocation camps that forcibly interned thousands of Japanese families. This heartwarming play explores Hirabayashi’s journey to the Supreme Court as he struggles to reconcile his country’s betrayal with his deep belief in the U.S. Constitution.


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Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi (平林潔, Hirabayashi Kiyoshi, April 23, 1918 – January 2, 2012) was an American sociologist, best known for his principled resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II, and the court case which bears his name, Hirabayashi v. United States.[1]  Although Hirabayashi had originally considered accepting internment, he ultimately became one of three to openly defy it. He joined the Quaker-run American Friends Service Committee. In 1942 he turned himself in to the FBI, and after being convicted for curfew violation was sentenced to 90 days in prison. He invited prosecution with the intention of challenging the legality of internment in the appellate courts.
Gorden served as chair of the sociology department  University of Alberta in Canada after the war. He was an active member of Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). (WiKi)