Korematsu and Beyond: Japanese Americans and the Origins of Strict Scrutiny
The story of the United States Supreme Court’s epochal 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education1 and the legal struggle for civil rights led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) dur-ing the decade following World War II occupies a central place in many Ameri-cans’ understanding both of the history of democracy in the United States and of the African American experience. Under the direction of Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund and al-lied attorneys brought a series of civil rights cases before the U.S.
