Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

December 18, 2009 05:00:00 am

On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.

Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.

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