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The Korematsu Decision
A look at the Korematsu Supreme Court case in America, 1942.
# 134052
| 1,000 words
| 1 source
| MLA
| 2007
| 
Published
on Dec 01, 2007
in
Asian Studies
(Asian American)
, History
(U.S. World Wars)
, Law
(Historic Trials)
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The paper discusses how in February 1942, just two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 allowing the Secretary of War to designate certain regions of the nation as military areas, also empowering the secretary to exclude specified individuals from those areas. The paper notes that the order did not mention Japanese or Japanese-Americans living on the U.S. West Coast, though everyone knew that that the order was aimed at these people.
From the Paper:
"In February 1942, just two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 allowing the Secretary of War to designate certain regions of the nation as military areas, also empowering the secretary to exclude specified individuals from those areas. The order did not mention Japanese or Japanese-Americans living on the U.S. West Coast, though everyone knew that that the order was aimed at these people. By September 1942, the U.S. government had in fact relocated some 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans to relocation camps away from the coast. Fred Korematsu was an American citizen of Japanese ancestry and lived in the San..."Cite this Term Paper:
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"The Korematsu Decision" 01 December 2007.
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