Opinion Remembering the courage of Fred Korematsu Jan. 29, 2024 at 1:38 pm Updated Jan. 29, 2024 at 2:38 pm By Eugene Lee ...

Dr. Karen Korematsu, walks past pictures of her father, Fred T. Korematsu, wearing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, left, and standing with Rosa Parks, during a celebration for UC Irvine’s Fred T.

Korematsu’s family had already abandoned their home and flower-nursery business in order to report to the camps. Fred, a 23-year-old shipyard welder, chose to remain behind and take his chances.

Eloquence entirely aside, Korematsu was tried and convicted in federal court, sentenced to five years’ probation and sent with his family to the Central Utah War Relocation Center in Topaz, Utah ...

In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations may be made to one of the following organizations: The Fred Korematsu Civil Rights Fund c/o Asian Law Caucus, Inc., 939 Market Street, Suite ...

(Matsumura Family/National Park Service via AP) Gov. Whitmer also signed Michigan Senate Bill 18, which designates January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day in Michigan.

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.

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.

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 ...

Fred Korematsu went on to champion the cause of civil liberties, not only seeking redress for Japanese Americans who were wrongfully incarcerated, but also traveling throughout the nation to ...

Fred Korematsu’s fight for liberty should inspire us all The HBO documentary “The Soul of America” adapts Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham’s book of the same name.