Korematsu v. United States
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Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World
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Fred Korematsu
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Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on P
Korematsu v. United States
…all persons of Japanese ancestry, including aliens and non-aliens" to relocate to internment camps. However, a 23-year-old Japanese-American man, Fred Korematsu, refused to leave the exclusion zone and instead challenged the order on the grounds that it violated the Fifth Amendment. In a majority opinion joined…
Fred Korematsu
Former horse stalls converted for temporary occupation by Japanese American internees at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Fred Korematsu and family
Korematsu at a press conference regarding the coram nobis petitioned for with the federal courts