Unfinished business the Japanese-American internment cases

Tells the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, who resisted the military orders to intern the Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Focuses on the three men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions to take their cases to the Supreme Court.

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"Tells the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, who resisted the military orders to intern the Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Focuses on the three men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions to take their cases to the Supreme Court."
"Tells the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, who resisted the military orders to intern the Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Focuses on the three men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions to take their cases to the Supreme Court."@en
"In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their lives and incarcerated in relocation camps. Their stories, along with those who refused to go, are told in this Oscar nominated film."@en
"Profiles of three Japanese-American men who were among those relocated from the Pacific coast by the United States government during World War II."@en
"Tells the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder. They resisted the military orders to intern Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Focuses on the three men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions to take their cases to the Supreme Court."@en
"In the Spring of 1942, over 110,000 men, women and children were forcibly evicted from their homes on the west coast and herded into internment camps across the country. Most of these internees were American citizens of Japanese ancestry. No charges were ever filed, no hearings or trials ever held. Yet, they were incarcerated behind wired fences and surrounded by watchtowers and armed guards for more than three years. This documentary tells the story of three men who refused to go. Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui defied the U.S. government and were separately convicted and imprisoned for violating Executive Order 9066. The personal testimony of the three men is interwoven with archival footage of wartime anti-Japanese hysteria, the evacuation and incarceration and life in the camps. Today, the men are fighting to overturn their original convictions in the final chapter of a 40-year battle against the act which shattered the lives of two generations of Japanese Americans."