A 1984 memo to Roanoke's mayor from the federal judge who vacated Korematsu's conviction: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-wwii-internment-camps-that-virginia-mayor-approves-o#.flPOg27VpE …pic.twitter.com/iJTECXjvR9
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A 1984 memo to Roanoke's mayor from the federal judge who vacated Korematsu's conviction: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-wwii-internment-camps-that-virginia-mayor-approves-o#.flPOg27VpE …pic.twitter.com/iJTECXjvR9
The internment camps, where "all persons of Japanese ancestry" in the western US were sent. http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-wwii-internment-camps-that-virginia-mayor-approves-o#.aepkWK8AOw …pic.twitter.com/ial77Ch82U
Here's the act the Sam Rayburn signed backing up FDR's executive order: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-wwii-internment-camps-that-virginia-mayor-approves-o#.aepkWK8AOw …pic.twitter.com/vVoCUeKwcr
It was actually this law under which Fred Korematsu eventually was charged.http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-wwii-internment-camps-that-virginia-mayor-approves-o#.xoVV65GLEq …
For more about the government's "error" in addressing challenges to the internment policies, see also, Neal Katyal: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4916&context=flr …
@chrisgeidner Wasn't just Korematsu-gov't suppressed all the clear evidence it had that these fears were baseless & policy was a failure.
@chrisgeidner We historians are failing the American people.
@chrisgeidner William Douglas considered it his great shame.
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