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California Dedicates Jan. 30 to Fred Korematsu Who Defied Japanese American Concentration Camps California dedicated Jan. 30 to the memory of Fred Korematsu, a shipyard welder who legally objected to Japanese American “internment” in World War II. The state holiday, officially the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, was signed into law by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sept. 23, 2010. “Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold...

Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and Fairplex in Pomona, then known as the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, were both Civilian Assembly Centers, temporary camps where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government were sent to Detention Camps. Korematsu lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ru...

A virtual celebration of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution will be held Saturday.

They werent rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. of the axis powers, it was only the japanese americans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. why is that? why was it just them? in 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. he was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u.s. government locked up japanese americans. much to his surprise, peter irons stumbled upon a whole bunch of e...

He was fiercely opposed to internment. he thought it was wrong. he fought it. his case went all the way to the supreme court, and fred korematsu in the sup court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fac...

Koramatsu in the supreme court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fact, at the time had all sorts of contrary evidence. they had all these internal reports. they had intelligence documents. they had f...

When they withheld all of that contrary evidence from the governments own files about the wobbliness of this contention that there was some military necessity that was undergirding the policy. they didnt think there was any such policy. they said there was no consensus, but the government lied and said there was a consensus. that order was signed in 1942. over 100,000 japanese americans were locked up. it wasnt until later that peter irons found those documents in dusty, misfiled, mislabeled box...

In this case there is nothing secret about the animus that underlies that policy. in korematsu, they had to lie about it. it took decades to dig up court ev. there is nothing sret about the animus here. nobody has held that evidence from the conservative majority of the supreme court, they just today chose to ignore it. and this is the supreme court. so there is no appealing this decision. there is no appeal, at least within the court system. there is no secret history of prejudice here for a ne...

German-americans and italian-americans didnt all get put into internment camps during world war ii, right? they werent rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. of the axis powers, it was only the japanese-americans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. why was that? why was it just them? in 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. he was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u.s....

They were in korematsu. in this case there is nothing secret about the animus that underlies that policy. in korematsu, they had to lie to the court about it. it took decades to dig up evidence. in the muslim ban case, theres nothing secret here. there is nothing secret about the animus here. nobody has held that evidence from the conservative majority of the supreme court, they just today chose to ignore it. and this is the supreme court. so there is no appealing this decision. there is no appe...