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Ep 370: Dale Minami on Overturning the Conviction of Fred Korematsu

ASIAN AMERICA: THE KEN FONG PODCAST
ASIAN AMERICA: THE KEN FONG PODCAST
Episode • May 22, 2022 • 1h 16m

Attorney Dale Minami is most known for leading the legal team that overturned the conviction of Fred Korematsu. Forty years earlier, Korematsu had defiantly disobyed Executive Order 9066--which unjustly incarcerated over 100,0000 Japanese Americans during World War II--  which led to Korematsu v. United States, widely considered one of the worst and most racist SCOTUS decisions in American history.