Of Civil Wrongs and Rights - The Fred Korematsu Story

Buy This Item Of Civil Wrongs and Rights - The Fred Korematsu Story by Docurama  Available from Amazon  $23.99  on 11-26-2008     In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary--a civil rights champion. Award-winning director Eric Paul Fournier follows Korematsu’s story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again. Reader Reviews Too many people think the Supreme Court is perfect. It's not! Look at "Plessy v. Ferguson" or "Bowers v. Hardwick"! They screw up and the "Korematsu" decision from the 1940s is part of that. This documentary takes an extensive look at that case. This work breaks down dichotomies and pushes aside simple explanations. We learn that the national ACLU did not want the Northern California branch to take this case. The work said Japanese Americans shunned Korematsu because they thought he didn't want to be associated with them. Later the work tries to figure out how relatively liberal Justices could err so terribly. This work has diverse interviewees: Japanese and whites; men and women; older people and younger ones. I gasped when seeing the dude who taught a constitutional law class I took. I didn't care to see that conceited, self-absorbed man on my screen. They show a photo that Korematsu took with Hirabayashi; it reminded me of the photo of King and X together. Actually, Korematsu really reminds me of Rosa Parks in many ways. Korematsu tried to get his eyelids changed. I know many younger women try to get rid of epicanthic folds now, but I didn't know a man could do it back then. Many viewers may benefit from watching this alongside the documentary "Going for Broke."

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