United States v. Korematsu

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United States v. Korematsu

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United States v. Korematsu was a criminal action brought against Japanese American Fred Korematsu for resisting relocation and internment as an enemy alien during World War II. His conviction in 1942 was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1944. In 1983, Fred Korematsu succeeded in winning a court order which vacated and recognized the injustice of the original conviction, and in the process, the injustice of the World War II Japanese internment program. Much new information came to light during the trial. The Korematsu case was a major factor in institution during 1988 of the federal Redress Program for World War II Japanese internees.

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Korematsu, Fred, 1919-2005

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Fred Korematsu was born in 1919, in Oakland, Calif., and lived there with his Issei (first generation) parents, who operated a nursery. He and his three brothers lived in Oakland until the spring of 1942, when he and approximately 110,000 other American citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were ordered to leave their West Coast homes and report for internment. Mr. Korematsu refused to leave the community in which he grew up and was arrested on May 30, 1942. He was tried and convicte...