On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. About 120,000 out of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living in the continental U.S. were put in ten internment ...
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.
In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...
honors the legacy of civil rights hero Fred Korematsu who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...