In the landmark Supreme Court case Korematsu v. U.S., the civil rights icon challenged the order that created internment camps—and lost. Here's why the case remains significant today
Born in Oakland in 1919, Korematsu had what might be called an all-American childhood. But he was also subjected to the anti-Japanese sentiment and discrimination common at the time in California and other states. Asian immigrants could not naturalize and gain American citizenship. And though California had the nation’s largest Asian American population, it was home to intense anti-Asian and anti-Japanese sentiment.
Korematsu’s parents, both Japanese immigrants, worked hard as owner-operators of a flower nursery in East Oakland. They were devastated by the attack, which plunged the U.S. into war with Japan. “They knew that the worst [was] gonna come to them,” said Korematsu in a 1996 A high school playground near the barracks of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, an incarceration camp in Inyo County, California. Photographer Toyo Miyatake, a prisoner in that camp himself, smuggled in a camera and would photograph—at first in secret—daily life.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: Three boys behind barbed wire at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of 10 camps where the U.S. incarcerated people of Japanese descent during World War II.
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