An educational reenactment in Manhattan marked Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by retracing Fred Korematsu’s legal journey. The program, titled “Fred Korematsu and His Fight for Justice: A Historical Reenactment,” focused on the 1942 case that followed Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. After the U.S. entered World War II, Japanese Americans were forcibly detained and sent to internment camps. On May 30, 1942, the FBI arrested Korematsu for failing to report to a relocation center. While jailed, he allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to represent him as a test case challenging the government’s order. He was tried in federal court in San Francisco, convicted for violating military orders under Executive Order 9066, and received five years’ probation before being sent to an assembly center in San Bruno, California.
"Korematsu was tried in federal court in San Francisco, convicted of violating military orders issued under Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was given five years' probation, and sent to an Assembly Center in San Bruno, CA. The activist's attorneys appealed the trial court's decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which agreed with the trial court that he had vi"
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