How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning | Retro Report

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How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning | Retro Report

Learn how President Franklin Roosevelt ordered 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most American citizens, rounded up and imprisoned in camps just months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Fred Korematsu resisted and was eventually arrested and convicted of violating the president’s order. He appealed, but the Supreme Court ruled against him in Korematsu v. United States, a decision that had a lasting impact. 
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