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Daily Trojan: Korematsu lawyer discusses Japanese American incarceration, Trump

Posted by Sean Tamura-Sato | Mar 15, 2019 | 0 Comments

Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel Dale Minami spoke at the University of Southern California on March 5, 2019. Below is an excerpt from an article in the Daily Trojan, the USC campus newspaper.

Famed civil rights attorney and USC alumnus Dale Minami joined nearly 100 students for a discussion about the history of Japanese American internment and civil rights Tuesday.

Minami, who notably overturned the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States, which justified the internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans, was invited by professor Alison Dundes Renteln to speak in her “Human Rights” course.

“He has been one of the great legal minds in our time,” Dundes said as she introduced him. “[He is] certainly a hero of mine. I've admired him for many years.”

Minami attended UC Berkeley's School of Law, which was previously named the Boalt School of Law after John Boalt, now known for being an anti-Chinese racist. Dundes Renteln said Minami played a role in changing the school's name after backlash from students. She drew a parallel to the controversy surrounding the Von KleinSmid Center on USC's campus, which was named after former University president and eugenicist Rufus Von KleinSmid. (Read More)

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