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, ...

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 ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Korematsu v. United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two ...

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.

Rep. Celeste Maloy and three other lawmakers have introduced a bill to honor civil rights activist Fred Korematsu, held in a Utah internment camp during World War II.

Sylvia Mendez laughs as she is introduced during a celebration for UC Irvine’s Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality in Irvine, CA, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.

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 ...

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 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 ...