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On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
After reading about Korematsu in the paper, Ernest Besig, who founded the American Civil Liberties Union branch in Northern California, wanted to use the 23-year old’s case as a test trial to ...
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He briefly became a fugitive and was eventually arrested. She said that Ernest Besig, then-director of the ACLU, visited Fred Korematsu in his jail cell after reading about him in the newspaper. Besig ...