States mark Fred Korematsu Day in memory of the man who fought WWII incarceration all the way to the Supreme Court.

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 ...

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, D-Harbor Gateway, and Marty Block, D-San Diego, and signed into law by Gov ...

Michigan has a new state holiday. January 30 each year will honor American civil rights activist Fred Korematsu under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday. Korematsu — the ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Korematsu v. United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two and a half years since Fred Korematsu was arrested in San Leandro ...

Fred Korematsu defied the order that incarcerated those with Japanese ancestry and fought his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Fred T. Korematsu Elementary School honored its namesake on his California holiday, Jan. 30, with the ribbon-cutting of an expansive and colorful mural featuring 16 “social justice heroes.” The mural ...

Korematsu’s story is not widely known, though at least eight state governments — Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Utah and Virginia — are helping to change that by ...

The legacy of civil rights activist Fred Korematsu, who famously challenged the mass imprisonment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans during WWII, is spotlighted in “Am I An American or Am I Not ...

On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v. United States. The plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, a 25-year-old Japanese American man from San Leandro ...

I represented civil rights legend Fred Korematsu. He was an activist for all Americans. My research uncovered Department of Justice records that had never been touched in 40 years.