Opportunities for greater learning-due Tuesday.

• WWII A Nation Coming Together- finish identifying the war propaganda –WWII Home front on Ms. France’s website.

• Aug. 2013 1-25 on a separate piece of paper.

Government News Reel Look over the Japanese Internment Timeline

Arguments:

Korematsu: 4th,5th,8th and 13th amend. rights violated

Gov: Necessary to prevent spying, sabotage and protect citizens

Background• Fearful of West Coast security

• FDR issues Executive Order #9066 – military zones

• Anyone of Japanese ancestry removed to camps

• Korematsu does not report

Korematsu v. United States

Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and restricting the rights of Americans of Japanese descent?

Question before the Court?

Impact112,000 Japanese Americans held in camps till the war was over

1946 Executive Order was lifted by Truman

1980’s Congress authorizes payment of damages to those interred

Decision:

Against KorematsuHis rights not violatedMilitary can do what is necessary in the interest of national security

The Court sided with the government and held that the need to protect against espionage outweighed Korematsu's rights. Justice Black argued that compulsory exclusion, though constitutionally suspect, is justified during circumstances of "emergency and peril."

Korematsu v. US