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World War II: Fred Korematsu

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Early Word War II Fred Korematsu was living in Oakland when the Japanese started attacking Pearl Harbor, in the beginning of World War II. As President Roosevelt's Executive Order was enforced, his family and the rest of the Japanese living in Oakland were forced to move to the Tanforan Assembly Center (a converted racetrack) and then spread into the different internment camps. He escaped internment by posing as a Spanish or a Hawaiian person. Even though he desperately wanted to fight along other Americans in the war, he was prohibited from doing so because of his ethnicity. He spent the early days of World War II trying to find work while resisting internment. He was then captured and put into the San Francisco jail and was put on trial …show more content…

He was then placed on a “biased and unfair judge” (as Korematsu and his team said) and sent with the rest of his family to the Central Utah War Relocation Center. During that time, he was seen to the other Japanese Americans as “unrespectful” and a “war criminal” due to his efforts to escape the internment. He also spammed applications for his case to both the US Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Surprisingly, both of the courts took the case and upheld the original verdict simply because the Executive Order was made and upheld by the military. Life after World War II After World War II, Korematsu remained silent about the internment incidents for around thirty years, neither telling his wife or daughter about this specific time. He felt as if he had played a negative role in that period, and therefore remained quiet. But in 1980, his old attorney found a box of hidden files that recorded that the Solicitor General of the US (the person who represented the US in Korematsu’s Supreme Court case) knew that President Roosevelt's Executive Order actually violated and segregated the Japanese and the Japanese American’s rights and the Constitution itself, and suppressed reports from both the FBI and the military that the Japanese and the Japanese Americans posed no risk to the national defense. He presented the files to President Jimmy Carter, who ordered a full investigation of the affected cases. Korematsu was later notified,of the

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“If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up ”(Fred Korematsu). In 1941 The Pearl Harbor was bombed, America was in fear. A year later, February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 which brought out the internment camps for Japanese Americans. In 1944, Korematsu spoke up for his rights as a Japanese- American citizen and he fought against the government. Fred Korematsu took a stand against the United States government for his rights by resisting arrest and placement into internment camps, and these actions resulted in a huge court case where he was accused guilty, though Korematsu lost, he should have been justified to evade the executive order.

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“The truth was, at this point Papa did not know which way to turn. In the government 's eyes a free man now, he sat, like those black slaves you hear about who, when they got word of their freedom at the end of the Civil War, just did not know where else to go or what else to do and ended up back on the plantation, rooted there out of habit or lethargy or fear” (Farewell to Manzanar, ----). Papa was just one victim of injustice. After the Japanese dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1947, all Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps. President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, ordering that all people of Japanese ethnicity because the government viewed them as a threat to national security.

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