Open Books Open Minds - When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

"Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland."

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34, May 3, 1942. Sumiko Kobayashi papers, MSS 73.

National Archives Record Group 210, 1941-1947

Korematsu v. United States (No. 22)
140 F.2d 289, affirmed.
323 U.S. 214

"One of the most important of the legal challenges to the internment policy was Korematsu v. United States, a case brought by Fred T. Korematsu, a Nisei (an American-born person whose parents were born in Japan). Korematsu had been arrested by the FBI for failing to report for relocation and was convicted in federal court in September 1942. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a sharply divided 6–3 decision, upheld Korematsu’s conviction in late 1944."

Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Images, music, texts and first-person accounts of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps during World War II.

Providing for acknowledgement of injustice, apology and restitution for the internees or their heirs, and education "to inform the public about the internment so as to prevent the recurrence of any similar event."

"... the nation's actions were rooted deeply in racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a lack of political leadership. We must learn from the past ..." -- Bill Clinton