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Korematsu | Japanese martyr and defendant in the case Korematsu vs. the United States (1944) |
Korematsu vs. the United States | (1944) Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court upheld the power of the president to limit an ethnic group's civil liberties during war; in other words it was okay for Japanese to be placed in concentration camps during the war against Japan |
Plessy vs. Ferguson | (1896) another case in which the Supreme Court judged against an ethnic group on account of their race |
Schenck vs. the United States | another case in which the Supreme Court decided that civil liberties could be limited due to wartime necessity |