Korematsu v. United States was a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision made in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It established that the U.S. government could intern Japanese ...

Ad Policy. Fred Korematsu in 1983. (Gary Fong / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v.United States.

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upheld a government program that required the exclusion of Japanese American citizens from areas along the West Coast on ...

In a stratified culture, national heroes can be hard to find. Here in the United States of America, Fred Korematsu is surely a hero for us all. Korematsu — born in Oakland in 1919, died in Marin ...

Paul Pruitt, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Alabama showed a recreation of Justice Hugo Black's library and highlights some of the Associate Justice's favorite books.