This is the third time in the nearly 40 years since the federal King holiday became law that it ... California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment Janiyah ...

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

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 ...

Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.

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 ...

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