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A civil libertarian and member of the democratic socialist party, Anne Fisher dedicated much of her life to publicizing the unfair treatment of Japanese Americans during and after their World War II incarceration.

In 1942 Fisher supported the case of Gordon Hirabayashi when he deliberately violated curfew and relocation orders imposed on Japanese Americans, arguing that they were based on race and therefore unconstitutional. After turning himself in, Hirabayashi appealed to the Supreme Court, but failed to win his case.

Fisher did not give up her interest in the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans after the war ended. For almost two decades after the war she conducted historical research, mostly from her Seattle area residence, to write a book about the incarceration. During this period she published part of her work in a bi-weekly newspaper called the Reporter. She also continued to advocate for Japanese Americans who did not receive just compensation for their treatment and for the possessions they lost during their incarceration. In the early 1950s Fisher also lobbied against the appointment of Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court because of his wartime role in the Japanese American incarceration.

After almost two decades of research and trying to find a publisher, Fisher’s book, Exile of a Race, was published in 1965. Exile of a Race argues strongly that there was never any evidence that Japanese Americans posed a threat and that all Americans should see the incarceration as evidence of the frailty of civil liberties in the U.S.

In the immediate postwar years Fisher also continued to advocate her leftist political beliefs and worked as a reporter for the Call a weekly socialist newspaper. For the paper she covered the 1945 United Nations charter conference..