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Asian Americans and U.S. Law (Tanaka)
Resource 6 . 3
half an hour

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Marina Hsieh

For context, think back to Hirabayashi and how the curfews were upheld as within Congress' power to prevent acts of subversion and espionage from Asian Americans and consider how far SCOTUS is willing to take that justification.

Supreme Court of the United States
323 U.S. 214, 89 L. Ed. 194, 65 S. Ct. 193, 1944 U.S. LEXIS 1341, SCDB 1944-018
No. 22
1944-12-18

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