Question

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

Answer 1

After the attack of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt authorized the Secretary of war to remove all individuals of Japanese ancestry from designated " military areas " and place them in internment camps. When this order was issued, Korematsu became a fugitive. The legality of the internment order was upheld by the U.S. Supreme court in Korematsu vs. United States, but Korematsu's conviction was overturned decades later after the disclosure of new evidence challenging the necessity of internment, which had been withheld from the courts by the U.S. government during the war.