Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295995157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bannai is director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and professor of legal skills at Seattle University School of Law. . Lorraine K
Fred Korematsu's decision to resist F.D.R.'s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. After refusing to leave for incarceration when ordered, Korematsu was eventually arrested and convicted of a federal crime before being sent to the internment camp at Topaz, Utah.He appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which, in one of the most infamous cases in American legal history, upheld the wartime orders. However, he quickly came to realize that it was more than just a personal choice; it was a matter of basic human rights. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu the Presidential Medal of Freedom.. Forty years later, in the early 1980s, a team of young attorneys resurrected Korematsu's
"A dry account of a very important story" according to Bearwife. You can tell a lawyer wrote this book it is grammatical and clear, and the story itself is pretty darn amazing, but I found myself zoning out at times because, well, Fred himself and the people who experienced what he did are the story and yet the book is mostly a fairly dry account of the (disgraceful) history of his case in the courts. So this is readable, but not exactly gripping. Everyone should know, though, the details of what happened to Korematsu and so many tens of thousands of other Japanese citizens in the U.S., and how readily a liberal President and a supposedly enlightened court system sanctioned it. So this boo. Amazon Customer said Valuable Read. Quality book, and an extremely valuable historical read. The story remains very important in our modern world.. "Required Reading" according to Kailua Mama. This book ought to be required reading for each middle and high school student in America.
This is what makes America strong – people who have faith in our ideals and who have the guts to stand up for them. Lorraine Bannai has given us the best biography of a litigant in a famous and infamous Supreme Court case that has yet been written."Peter Irons, author of Justices at War: The Story of the Japanese American Cases"Bannai unravels, like an engaging novel, the story of Fred Korematsu, the wrongs he endured, and the fortitude he demonstrated. She shows that in times of crisis, the appeal of authoritarian, scapegoating rhetoric is a menace to democracy. "Wonderful! A moving portrait of a seemingly ordinary man, motivated by love, whose passionate resistance transformed him into Fred Korematsu - an icon of the Japanese American Redress movement, and a true defender of American liberties."Lane Hirabayashi, coauthor of A Principled Stan