California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...
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On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
When the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Korematsu v. United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two and a half years since Fred Korematsu ... plastic surgery on his eyelids ...
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California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment
California on Thursday is observing Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties ... government were sent to detention camps. Korematsu lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in ...