Life changed further for Fred Korematsu, a 23-year-old shipyard welder who was born in Oakland with native Japanese parents but had never set foot in Japan, on May 30, 1942.

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 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 ...

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.

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...

A second Korematsu bill: Takano also has re-introduced a bill to have Fred Korematsu Day, marked in California and six other ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...