EFFECTS

Short-Term Effects

Around that time, the government announced they would close the camps in late 1945 and early 1946. But even then, there was still astounding anti-Japanese sentiment. Many Japanese Americans had nowhere to go.
In 1946, Fred married Kathryn Pearson, and until 1967, neither of Fred's children heard about the camps and Fred's experience. He had put his past behind him. The case was over.

Long-Term Effects

Or was it? Because in 1982 evidence was unearthed that the original case was built on fraud. The government lawyers had lied! In fact, there was evidence that the majority of Japanese Americans were not dangerous at all. And so Fred once again took his case to court, and the judge ruled in his favor! Finally, Fred Korematsu had gotten what he deserved, and in 1988, thanks to his case, Congress passed a bill giving $20,000 to every living victim of the camps as well as issuing a formal apology to them for what they endured. Fred had won, and gotten the government to confess to its mistakes. He had helped prove the promise "with liberty and justice for all".

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