During World War II, Fred Korematsu, one of the 120,000 Japanese ... Korematsu received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Reparations were paid to him and others of Japanese ancestry.
Mitsuye Endo was a woman of Japanese descent, born in Sacramento, who was incarcerated in an internment camp by the U.S.
United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two and a half years since Fred Korematsu ... overturned Korematsu’s conviction in 1983, and he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in ...