Virginia will commemorate its first statewide Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution this year, becoming the sixth state to officially commemorate Jan. 30 this way as civil ...

While Fred Korematsu’s conviction was eventually overturned, some argue that the principles at the foundation of the decision are still prevalent today.

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 ...

Several American cities celebrated Fred Korematsu Day Monday. Korematsu fought the executive order that incarcerated thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II. His case went to the ...

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 ...

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.

Korematsu, daughter of civil rights icon Fred Korematsu and founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, addressed an audience of more than 200, mostly area students, emphasizing the importance of ...

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 ...

Dr Karen Korematsu, Founder and President of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute and the daughter of the late civil rights icon, Fred Korematsu, is set to be the featured speaker at the Robert H Jackson ...

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 ...

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 ...