Fred+Korematsu

=**Fred Korematsu**=
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Fred Korematsu

Fred Korematsu was an average Japanese American, he was born in America and had lived there his whole life. Fred was born on January 30, 1919 and he died on March 30, 2005. He lived in Oakland, California where his parents had a nursery school. Both Fred and his family were proud to have Japanese heritage and his parents often spoke of Japan in public. But then Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued [|Executive Order 9066]on February 19, 1942. Fred refused to be put into a internment camp because he felt that it was against his constitutional rights (which it was). He changed his name to be of Spanish and Hawaiian heritage. He was then captured on May 30, 1942, and was tried in federal court. He lost the case, but later he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case [|Korematsu v. United States] ended on December 18, 1944 with a 6-3 verdict that with compulsory exclusion, though constitution suspect, is justified in time of "emergency and peril". After Fred was put in jail the war ended in 1945. And in 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed a special assignment to investigate the Japanese Internment during World War Two. After finding that it was unconstutional and against the Japanese-Americans rights he issued a reperation of 20,000 dollars to each surviving evacuee. Later, on November 10, 1983 the Supreme Court officially overturned Fred Korematsu v. United States. A day at Manzanar •[|Wikipedia] •[|Democracy Now]