Michigan has a new state holiday. January 30 each year will honor American civil rights activist Fred Korematsu under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday.. Korematsu — the ...

Korematsu’s story is not widely known, though at least eight state governments — Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Utah and Virginia — are helping to change that by ...

Fred Korematsu was arrested in 1942 and convicted of violating President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order authorizing the incarceration of more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ...

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, D-Harbor Gateway, and Marty Block, D-San Diego, and signed into law by Gov ...

Life changed further for Fred Korematsu, a 23-year-old shipyard welder who was born in Oakland with native Japanese parents but had never set foot in Japan, on May 30, 1942.

Fred T. Korematsu Elementary School honored its namesake on his California holiday, Jan. 30, with the ribbon-cutting of an expansive and colorful mural featuring 16 “social justice heroes.” The mural ...

Although the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution is not recognized in Washington state, I urge everyone to remember the stories not only of Korematsu, but also of Gordon ...

U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy and three congressional colleagues have introduced a measure to grant Fred Korematsu the recognition in light of his “contributions to civil rights, his loyalty and ...

The legacy of civil rights activist Fred Korematsu, who famously challenged the mass imprisonment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans during WWII, is spotlighted in “Am I An American or Am I Not ...

Ad Policy. Fred Korematsu in 1983. (Gary Fong / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v.United States.