
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and destroyed the US Pacific Fleet.

After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which required Japanese-Americans to move into relocation camps as a part of national security.

The executive order allowed military personnel to physically remove anyone with Japanese ancestry from their homes.

Over 120,000 Japanese men, women and children were relocated to 26 different "detention camps" for fourteen weeks in West Coast states including Idaho and Arizona.

After his parents left their flower shop to report to the relocation camps, 23 year old Fred Korematsu did not comply with the rules to leave his home as a Japanese-American man.

He got surgery on his eyes, changed his name to Clyde Sarah and even claimed he was of Hawaiian and Spanish descent to avoid relocation.

On May 30, 1942, Korematsu was arrested by the FBI for failing to report to a relocation center.

While waiting in jail, Fred decided to have the American Civil Liberties Union represent him and make a test case to challenge the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066.

Korematsu was tried in federal court in San Francisco and convicted of violating military orders under Executive Order 9066 and affirmed by the Ninth Circuit.

He was also given five years on probation and sent to an Assembly Center in San Bruno, California.

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and destroyed the US Pacific Fleet.

After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which required Japanese-Americans to move into relocation camps as a part of national security.

The executive order allowed military personnel to physically remove anyone with Japanese ancestry from their homes.

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