There were many different beliefs about what was actually going on and who did what, but in the end, four men changed everything. Fred T. Korematsu, Mitsuye Endo, Minoru Yasui and Gordon K. Hirabayashi look at the rules of the Constitution and figured out that these camps that the US was sending the Japanese to was going against constitutional laws. They brought this to the supreme court which surprised the court. In 1944 the US Supreme Court made the decision that changed everything. They decided that the camps actually were going against their countries beliefs and own constituation. Slowly, the camps began to shut down, and the Japanese were freed. There was still lots of security watching them. Just because the camps shut down, doesn't mean that the problem went away. The last camp to shut down was Tule Lake, which closed March 1946.
Finally in 1976, (No, this is not a typo) President Gerald R Ford explained how the evacuation of the Japanese 30 years ago was wrong. The House of Representatives even sent a formal apology to the evacuees and even sent them an award of $1.2 billion.
Finally in 1976, (No, this is not a typo) President Gerald R Ford explained how the evacuation of the Japanese 30 years ago was wrong. The House of Representatives even sent a formal apology to the evacuees and even sent them an award of $1.2 billion.