He briefly became a fugitive and was eventually arrested. She said that Ernest Besig, then-director of the ACLU, visited Fred Korematsu in his jail cell after reading about him in the newspaper. Besig ...

Southern California members of Congress are helping lead a bipartisan effort to get Congress to award its highest civilian honor to the late civil rights pioneer Fred Korematsu. The Japanese ...

We have received text from H.R. 821: Fred Korematsu Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2025. This bill was received on 2025-01-28, and currently has 21 cosponsors. Here is a short summary of the bill ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Bill Clinton in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86. Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties ...