Civil Rights
Dec. 19, 2014
When blood libel defeated the rule of law
Thursday marks 70 years since Korematsu v. US, in which the Supreme Court upheld the ethnic cleansing of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. By Gerald Masahiro Sato
Thursday marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944). In that decision, the court upheld the constitutionality of the ethnic cleansing of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of the United States during World War II.
Fred Korematsu had never been suspected of or charged with acts disloyal or harmful to the U.S. Rather, his "offense" consi...
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