Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court case that

On November 12, The LA Local and the Japanese American National Museum will host a live staged reading of a historic Supreme Court decision, Korematsu v. United States, in Little Tokyo, using a script by the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY). The case upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Fred Korematsu, who will be played by George Takei, was a welder from Oakland who refused to comply with Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to “relocation centers” — imp

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