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Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu papers, 1934-1987.
MANUSCRIPT3895-3899
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Title:

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu papers, 1934-1987
Korematsu

Abstract:

Coram nobis papers relating to Fred Korematsu's legal case (writ of coram nobis: n. from Latin for "in our presence", an order by a court of appeals to a court which rendered judgment requiring that trial court to consider facts not on the trial record which might have resulted in a different judgment if known at the time of trial.)

Date:

1934 (issued)

Contents:

Series I: Government Documents and Correspondence, 1934-1947, Boxes 3895-3896 ; Series II: Court Documents, 1941-1944, Boxes 3896-3897; Series III: Newspaper clippings and articles, 1942-1945, Box 3897; Series IV: Postwar Supplemental Materials, 1949-1981, Box 3897; Boxes 3897-3898; Series V: Court Documents, 1982-1988, Boxes 3897-3898;Series VI: Korematsu, Yasui and Hirabayashi Legal Teams, Box 3899

Subject:

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Korematsu, Fred -- 1919-2005
Japanese Americans -- California -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Legal documents -- United States

Note:

Fred Toyobasuro Korematsu was born in Oakland on January 30,1919, attended local schools, and worked in his family's nearby flower nursery. Defying the 1942 Japanese-American relocation order, he went into hiding and was subsequently arrested after being recognized. Korematsu agreed to let his case act as a test to determine the legality of the Japanese-American internment, which went all the way to the Supreme Court before being decided in the government's favor. In 1983, his conviction was overturned on the basis of suppressed evidence, and he spent the rest of his life fighting against the suppression of American civil liberties based on race. Korematsu died on Marin County on March 30, 2005.
Korematsu.
Gift; Diane Matsuda, California Civilties Public Education Program; 2005.
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Physical Description:

print
5 archival boxes; 16 x 12 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.

Language:

English

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California

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Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.