During World War II, Fred Korematsu refused to comply with Executive Order 9066, which incarcerated over 120,000 Japanese Americans, more than two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens like himself.

On January 30, California, Hawai’i, Utah, Illinois, and Georgia will officially commemorate Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Virginia still ...

In a stratified culture, national heroes can be hard to find. Here in the United States of America, Fred Korematsu is surely a hero for us all. Korematsu — born in Oakland in 1919, died in Marin ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.

Several American cities celebrated Fred Korematsu Day Monday. ... D.C. And you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And let's see if we go next to Dave. Dave with us from San Francisco.

Oakland native Fred T. Korematsu, whose challenge of Executive Order 9066 was carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, has been spotlighted by Google as the search engine’s “doodle of the day… ...

A second Korematsu bill: Takano also has re-introduced a bill to have Fred Korematsu Day, marked in California and six other states, observed at a national level. The bill does not have GOP co ...

The Robert H. Jackson Center welcomed Dr. Karen Korematsu on Tuesday as the keynote speaker for its annual Constitution Day observance. Korematsu, daughter of civil rights icon Fred Korematsu and ...

On December 18th, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v.United States.The plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, a twenty-five-year-old Japanese American man from San ...

Fred Korematsu was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Oakland, California, and was arrested for defying Executive Order No. 9066, which authorized the U.S. military to place Japanese-Americans ...

California on Thursday is observing Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...