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Tragically, in 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the evacuation of Japanese-Americans, a decision widely regarded by constitutional scholars and historians as one of the worst mistakes in Supreme Court history.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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FDR interned Japanese-Americans, but he got the New Deal.
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It does not serve this country to render up mass, unthinking indictments that future American schoolchildren will renounce, just as today's students show interest in World War II, but condemn the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Robert Slayton: AMERICAN TRAGEDY Robert Slayton 2010
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It does not serve this country to render up mass, unthinking indictments that future American schoolchildren will renounce, just as today's students show interest in World War II, but condemn the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Robert Slayton: AMERICAN TRAGEDY Robert Slayton 2010
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Mr. Sakatani, now 82, came back here this week to mark the opening of a museum that tells his story—and the stories of more than 10,000 other Japanese-Americans detained for years during World War II at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in northwest Wyoming.
Memorializing a Painful Chapter of History Stephanie Simon 2011
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The internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, it's worth recalling, was mainly the doing of those two great civil libertarians Franklin Roosevelt and Earl Warren.
The 9/11 Decade 2011
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And you saw that in World War II with Japanese-Americans being interned.
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He was 13 in the late summer of 1942, his birthday having arrived during the train ride that carried his family and thousands of other Japanese-Americans from their homes in California to the desolation of Wyoming.
Memorializing a Painful Chapter of History Stephanie Simon 2011
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Other, he advocates annoyingly for Jewish refugees and Japanese-Americans.
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They recently dedicated a memorial at Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, where soldiers with bayonets rounded up 227 Japanese-Americans in March 1942 and shipped them to internment camps, paper ID tags dangling from their coats.
Memorializing a Painful Chapter of History Stephanie Simon 2011
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