Four decades after the U.S. government incarcerated nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans, long-hidden evidence revealed that the reason behind the mass imprisonment was a lie. This episode explores how the discovery a “smoking gun” report led to Oakland native Fred Korematsu re-opening his World War II-era Supreme Court case. Korematu’s lawyer, Dale Minami, shares how lessons learned from this “civil rights disaster” can help prevent another injustice of this magnitude—or worse.

PS: I wrote this article for the Bello Collective about another podcast that did a terrible job covering the topic of Japanese-American mass incarceration: “Radiolab’s ‘More Perfect’ Flunks a Key History Lesson”