As the internment unfolded, numerous prominent Americans actively tried to combat it. Religious and civic groups, from the Quakers to the Fair Play Committee, independently strove to aid those within the camps. Returning from house arrest in Tokyo, the American Ambassador to Japan toured the United States in an effort to soften hatred toward the Japanese. A high-placed intelligence official and expert on Japanese Americans anonymously published an article with a similar objective. Two Japanese Americans, Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu, resisted the evacuation through the courts. All of these efforts, however, were uncoordinated, and the President’s order remained in place. This chapter traces the disparate measures that Americans pursued to undo a grave injustice.

Unlike other constructions, coordinations are headless, consisting of two or more strings in coordinate function, often phrases of the same category and typically linked by means of a coordinator in marker function (mainly ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘but’). The marker is a dependent in an expanded coordinate. Those without a marker are bare coordinates.

A coordination is permitted roughly wherever all of its coordinates, unlimited in number, would be permitted. Coordinates are required to be syntactically similar in potential function.

The order of coordinates is not always free. When the order of a pair of coordinates may be switched, they are symmetric. Otherwise, they’re asymmetric. An expanded coordinate can never be preposed. Sometimes semantic considerations require a particular order, and some coordinates are fixed phrases. The interpretation of a coordination may be joint or distributive.When a coordinate itself is a coordination, the coordinations are said to be layered. Finally, we note a number of Non-basic cases: expansion of coordinates by adjuncts, gapped coordination, coordination of non-constituents, delayed right constituent coordination, and end-attached coordinates.