THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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deport Japanese Americans back to Japan
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deny voting rights to Japanese Americans
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relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps
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require Japanese Americans to serve in the military
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Detailed explanation-1: -Korematsu asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear his case. On December 18, 1944, a divided Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision that the federal government had the power to arrest and intern Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu under Presidential Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-3: -United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.
Detailed explanation-4: -A Japanese-American man living in San Leandro, Fred Korematsu, chose to stay at his residence rather than obey the order to relocate. Korematsu was arrested and convicted of violating the order. He responded by arguing that Executive Order 9066 violated the Fifth Amendment.