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Japanese-American Internment
Majority Opinion
WRITTEN BY JUSTICE HUGO BLACK
Justice Hugo Black delivered his opinion
to the courts, saying that any member
who is not originally of American decent
is and will always be "suspect" and must
be treated with the highest of security.
He argued that the internment camps for
the Japanese were not unconstitutional,
but simply a necessary precaution.
Dissenting Opinion
ROBERT JACKSON
Justice Robert Jackson sided with Fred
Korematsu in the Supreme Court,
observing that there was no internment
camps or ill behavior being giving to those
Americans who are of German or Italian
decent, both of whom America was in a
war with at the time. He ruled the
treatment the Japanese Americans to be
unconstitutional.
Korematsu v. U.S.
1. Why did
Korematsu refuse to
obey the evacuation
order?
2. Do you think the
cartoon is on the
side of the US
government or
Korematsus ? Why
Japanese American Internment (U.S. Govt Film)
Korematsu Information
Kenji
Gather Evidence
Why was Japanese-American Internment
necessary?
December 7, 1941
CASUALTIES
2,408 KILLED - 1,178 WOUNDED = 3,586 TOTAL
NOTE: Many more were known to have received
wounds from shrapnel and other flying debris
that didn't receive hospitalization in the already
overcrowded medical facilities and no records
were kept of their treatment.