Background: Strection is a plobal, nongartian, non-profit organization that provides educational materials This excerp from a case summary of Korematsu v. United States (1944) on the injustices of Japanese Internment. After Peart Harbor was bombed in December 1941, the Insitary feared a Japanese attacl on the U.S. mainland and me Anerican government with worried that Americans of Interese descent might aid the enemy. In 1942, President Roosevelt signed an executive order forcing Imany Went Contlapanese and Japanese Americans into Intemment camps. tried to avoid being interned, but was later arrested and convicted of violating the courts seying the povernment did not bave the power to an executive order. Korematsu challenged his conviction in sour the relacation orders and that he was being discriminated against besed on his race. The government that the evacuation was necessary to protect the country and the federal appeals court agreed Korematsu appeaied this decision and the case came before the U.S. Why was Document C created? to defend the Supreme Court's majority opinion in the Korematsu ruling to gain support for President Roosevet's executive orders during World War II. to provide students with information about an important decision by the Supreme Court. to honor Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps