Kurima is a fourth-generation Japanese American. His parents and their families were incarcerated in Jerome, Arkansas, and Rohwer, Arkansas, during World War II. He lives in Carlsbad.People readily… ...

Fred Korematsu, whose fight against internment led all the way to the Supreme Court — and who later warned of acting against groups due to their race or religion — is being honored by several ...

Fred Korematsu was the first Asian American to have a day named in his honor. There are several schools named after him, and in 1998 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Why did he ...

Fred Korematsu, who became a symbol of civil rights for challenging the World War II internment orders that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to government camps, has died. He was 86.

Korematsu was born on January 30, 1919, in Oakland, California, to Japanese immigrant parents, who moved to the US in 1905. Google Doodle is marking what would have been his 98th birthday.

In 1998, Fred Korematsu was a fragile reed of a man. But in the East Room of the White House, the septuagenarian stood up straight and tall as he heard President Clinton say, "Plessy, Brown, Parks ...

Fred Korematsu’s battle began on May 3, 1942 when General John L. DeWitt issued Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34. That order mandated the removal of “all persons of Japanese ancestry” to be ...

Fred Korematsu, born in 1919 to Japanese immigrants, grew up in Oakland, California. He was raised in a Presbyterian family, went to church every Sunday and participated in Boy Scouts, ...

Since the election, members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, such as Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have discussed ...

Fred Korematsu, 86, who unsuccessfully fought Japanese American internment camps during World War II before finally winning in court nearly four decades later, died March 30 at his daughter's home ...

Fred Korematsu, the civil rights hero who crusaded against the United States' internment of the Japanese in the 1940s, is the subject of the Jan. 30 Google doodle. The digital tribute honors ...

For decades, Karen Korematsu has hoped and prayed that someday the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its infamous 1944 decision upholding the mass incarceration of her father, Fred, and 120,000 ...