Question

2. What did Fred T. Korematsu do that resulted in his arrest and conviction?

Answer 1

Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government's incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government's order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Answer 2

He refused to report to a Japanese internment camp in California after Pearl Harbor. He then sued the government claiming discrimination. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court and is one of the most famous Supreme Court cases