Public Interest
Sep. 28, 1999
The Activists
By Jennifer Byrd San Francisco attorneys Dale Minami and Donald K. Tamaki have reshaped history for Japanese-Americans. In the early 1980s, they were part of a legal team that helped overturn the 1944 Supreme Court conviction of Fred Korematsu, who was wrongly accused of espionage and arrested for refusing to report to a Japanese internment camp. Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944). The internment camps were created during World War II to isolate those persons of Japanese descent.
In the early 1980s, they were part of a legal team that helped overturn the 1944 Supreme Court conviction of Fred Korematsu, who was wrongly accused of espionage and arrested for refusing to report to a Japanese internment camp. Kor...
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