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 Fred Korematsu and Rosa Parks "In February 1942, 120,000 U.S. residents of Japanese ancestry — both citizens and noncitizens — were ordered out of their homes and into camps following Japan's Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Fred Korematsu did not turn himself in and was arrested, jailed and convicted of a felony for failing to report for evacuation.  From the website for the film "Rabbit in the Moon," which will be shown at The Seattle Public Library at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 10th. "Korematsu was one of several who challenged the constitutionality of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 authorizing internment. His case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court and, in 1944, the court upheld the order. "But, as was discovered many years later, the court — and the nation — had been gravely misled about the potential dangers from Japanese-Americans. Indeed, the Korematsu case was cited as recently as April 2004. "At issue before the Supreme Court was whether U.S. courts could review challenges to the incarceration of mostly Afghan prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Korematsu, then 84, filed a friend-of-the-court brief saying, 'The extreme nature of the government's position is all too familiar.' "Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Bush administration's policy of detaining foreign nationals without legal process at Guantanamo Bay was illegal. Japanese-American who fought against WWII detentions has died |
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