When Justice Failed the Fred Korematsu Story: Student Reader

by Steven A. Chin

Book Overview

Relates the life and experiences of the Japanese American who defied the order of internment during World War II and took his case as far as the Supreme Court. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811480763
• ISBN13: 9780811480765
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Steck-Vaughn
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Many hoped to forget and move on

1941, four months before Pearl Habor, Curtis Munson was asked by President Roosevelt to secretly investigate whether Japanese Americans posted a threat to the United States. Munson wrote, "There will be no armed uprising of Japanese Americans. For the most part the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or; at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs. We do not believe that they would be at least any more disloyal than any other racial group in the United States with whom we went to war." A constitutional question of whether law 503 violated the equal protection clause of the constitution, of which, the court has not addressed. Fred criminal case was reversed. The suprement court case, Korematsu verses the United States was not reversed. The fourteenth amendment test was not applied to the Korematsu necessary to protect fundamental rights.

Powerful and Informative

This is a moving account of World War II and the struggles that surrounded the people involved. Your child will learn respect for Fred and the risks that he took to safeguard his fellow man. I used this book as research for my own historical novel and found it to be immensely useful.