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 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 ...

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During World War II, Fred Korematsu, one of the 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans incarcerated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, refused to be moved ...

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 ...