After the 1941 Pearl Harbor attacks...Fred Korematsu challenged President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 that authorized the U.S. military to forcibly remove more than 120,000 people, mostly of Japanese descent, from their homes and into incarceration camps throughout the country. Two-thirds of these people were American citizens. Mr. Korematsu went into hiding in the Oakland area, becoming a fugitive, and was arrested and convicted of violating the federal order. His case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Jan. 30, the White House issued a statement honoring the legacy of Fred Korematsu.
The FBI has released...documents from its file on [the late] US Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, some of which show the late Japanese-American lawmaker was the target of racially and politically motivated threats of violence.
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Though Summer’s brother has been diagnosed with a number of disorders, she prefers to think of him as simply “intense,” and, like most siblings, is alternately protective of and annoyed by his idiosyncrasies.
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...comes at the internment-camp issue from [the] view...of Chinese Americans who wanted to keep their distance from their Japanese-American counterparts, or even bore them animosity for the cruelties the invading Japanese were inflicting on China. Just as unexpected is the way Ford weaves [in Seattle's] Jackson Street jazz-scene lore...
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