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Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American civil rights leader and pioneer. He was born in Oakland, California in 1919, his parents immigrating there to the United States from Japan. His actual name is not Fred at all, it's Kotusi Korematsu, one of his teachers said that he should go by Fred because it would be easier, he would be going by that name for the rest of his life. In 1938 news broke out that Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese airplanes, then the next day President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. There was paranoia around the West Coast, Roosevelt declared that all immigrants of Japanese descent were “alien enemies” if over the age of 14. Despite there being no evidence of Japanese Americans, Lieutenant General John L. …show more content…

Even going as far as breaking the law, putting his own life on the line for his and others rights. By fleeing it resulted in him ending up getting put in jail, but a man of the name Ernest Besig. He was an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and wanted to help Kpremastus in his arrest. He was transported to Tanforan Racetrack on June 28th 1942, where his family was. Before this, he filed a case earlier in the month on June 12. The lawsuit violated constitutional rights and suffered racial discrimination (U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Fred Korematsu; Declares Denial of Civil Liberties Legal). His family were not very happy about his arrest and his decision to fight his case. Due to this, he ended up having nobody to talk to, feeling lonely and isolated. Trying to contact his girlfriend, Ida, but he sadly never saw her again. In October 1942, people in these camps were able to apply to leave if they had evidence of employment elsewhere, away from the west coast. When January of 1944 came around Fred's application was approved so he ended up settling in Detroit in October with his brothers (Fred T. Korematsu, 2015). During all this, Freds court case had gone through the legal system with the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States. A decision was made on December 18, 1944, that it was legal for the denial

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