Wo is cited in Hirabayashi v. United States to recognize that: "Distinctions between citizens solely based because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. For that reason, legislative classification or discrimination based on race alone has often been held to be a denial of equal protection." However, the US Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Gordon Hirabayashi, the Japanese American who tested the curfew law and refused to register for the forced internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II. In San Francisco there is a public school named Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in honor of Yick Wo. See also Chinese American Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 118 References External links Background Bernstein, David E. (2007), Revisiting Yick Wo v. Hopkins Case Brief for Yick Wo v. Hopkins at Lawnix.com A documentary on Yick Wo v. Hopkins "Supreme Court Landmark Case Yik Wo v. Hopkins" from C-SPAN's Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions Chinese-American history Minority rights case law United States equal protection case law United States Supreme Court cases 1886 in United States case law Criminal cases in the Waite Court History of San Francisco Law in the San Francisco Bay Area Chinatown, San Francisco United States Supreme Court cases of the Waite Court United States Fourteenth Amendment case law