Pearl Harbor’s role in a historic Supreme Court decision.
How many of you know that about 120,000 U.S. citizens of
Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of which were born in the country, were interned
in 10 camps set up nationally from the year after Imperial Japanese navy attached
the Perl Harbor base in Hawaii on December 7th, eightth in Japan because of the International Date Line, 1941 until the year after the war ended in 1945?
The executive order by then president Franklin Roosevelt was upheld by the Supreme
Court at that time but a half century later, the court overturned the prior judgment.
Enjoy reading and learning about a part of the dark side of
human right history in the US.
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