Collection Highlights - Enduring Conviction : Fred Korematsu and his quest for justice

Fred Korematsu resisted F.D.R.'s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. After refusing to leave for incarceration when ordered, Korematsu was eventually arrested and convicted of a federal crime before being sent to the internment camp at Topaz, Utah. He appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which, in one of the most infamous cases in American legal history, upheld the wartime orders. Forty years later, in the early 1980s, a team of young attorneys resurrected Korematsu's case. This time, Korematsu was victorious, and his conviction was overturned, helping to pave the way for Japanese American redress. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Enduring Conviction : Fred Korematsu and his quest for justice by Lorraine K. Bannai

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015 KF 228 K59 B36 2015