Executive Order 9066 was signed by Franklin Roosevelt in the beginning of 1942. This stated that any descendants of enemy nations will be relocated and imprisoned. Close to two weeks later, about 120.000 Japanese Americans were removed from their jobs and homes to be placed in camps. The Japanese families packed and carried all that they could and some sold their land to get what they could from it. One American citizen by the name of Fred Korematsu refused to go. He was handled and taken to jail by the police fro defying Roosevelt’s order. Fred’s constitutional rights were violated and he decided to take his case to court. After being turned down by two different courts, his case was taken to the supreme court where the camps were declared
