Wartime detention of Japanese-Americans upheld 70 years ago today (1942)


Video: 'Fred Korematsu - PROTEST'

(Tuesday, September 8, 1942, during World War II) — U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, California, on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.