19: Episode 19 - The Land of the Free?

Fred Korematsu was a law abiding, loyal citizen of the United States. He held no criminal record and loved his homeland so much so, that he wanted to don a uniform to defend her. So, why then did his country turn on him and treat him like a criminal? Convicting him, incarcerating him, interring him, and leaving him with a criminal record? Fred would spend a lifetime trying to defend the injustice bestowed against him, and the thousands of others in his position.

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Sources:

• Pennsylvania Polka - The Andrews Sisters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92rmDlhgPqk
• Possession by Purple Planet
• All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.
• Sources:
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• Pearl Harbor Attacks - As It Happened - Radio Broadcasts (1941) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Buw4XYc8E
• Supreme Court Landmark Case [Korematsu v. United States] - https://www.stitcher.com/show/cspan-landmarkcases/episode/supreme-court-landmark-case-korematsu-v-united-states-42674029
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• Chinese Exclusion Act - https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882
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• Karl Bendetsen - https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Karl_Bendetsen
• The Munson Report - https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/munson_report.cfm
• Kenneth Ringle - https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Kenneth_Ringle/
• FRED KOREMATSU: A CIVIL RIGHTS HERO - https://www.niot.org/niot-video/fred-korematsu-civil-rights-hero
• Pearl Harbor & Executive Order 9066 | And Then They Came for Us - https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pearl-harbor-executive-order-9066-video/korematsu-institute/
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• A Man of Quiet Bravery - https://vimeo.com/140002761
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