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AAfter the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 66% of Japanese-Americans were imprisoned. DDuring World War II, over 127,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned. EEven Japanese-Americans that served the U.S. Army were sent to internment camps. After executive order 9066, Japanese- Americans had only 48 hours to get out of their homes. Picture From: a.weebly.com/

 Adults that worked at the camps only got $5 a day.  There were 10 internment camps in the U.S. in remote areas of seven western states.  The largest internment camp was in Tule Lake, CA with a peak population of18,789 people.  Even though over 120,000 people were imprisoned, during all of World War II only 10 people were convicted of spying for Japan.

 Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was born January 30, 1919 in Oakland, CA.  Fred died March 30, 2005 in Marin County, CA at the age of 86.  Fred worked on his family's nursery until his family left for the assembly center in  On May 9, 1942, Fred’s parents and his three brothers left to go to Tanforan Assembly Center.  When his family left, Fred stayed and got minor plastic surgery to his eyes to look less Japanese and to continue his normal life. Picture From: nsho.org/Fred_Koremats u/

 Fred stayed with his girlfriend and was arrested on May 30, 1942 for not following the executive order.  Fred took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court in December of 1944, but lost with a 6-3 vote.  He then returned to the assembly center until the release of Japanese-Americans.  He then moved to Detroit, Michigan where he met his wife, Katherine.

 Fred and Katherine Korematsu were married in Detroit before they moved to the San Francisco Bay area.  They raised their two children, Karen and Ken, in California.  In 1998, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 7 years before he died.  His wife, Katherine, died in 2013, 8 years after his death.

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