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

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

California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...

A Lansing road continues to have lane closures and today is Fred Korematsu Day across Michigan. Find out what is happening today in your neighborhood.

“These heroes fought for, and many of them died for, ideals of America, the freedom we cherish ... highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizens Medal, to 20 individuals, including former ...

President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Citizens Medal posthumously to Mitsuye ... of Presidential power.” The Korematsu he is referring to is Fred Korematsu. His daughter, Karen Korematsu ...

Among his choices was Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet — who was not able to receive his medal ... Presidential Medals of Freedom, because they smack of an honors list (whereby you get “Sir Fred ...

The inspirational story of Fred Korematsu, who challenged the mass imprisonment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, will be the subject of a special lecture by his daughter at ...

The first is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On Jan. 2, a release from the White House ... The other challengers were Gordon Hirabayashi, Min Yasui, and Fred Korematsu, whose cases were not ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi didn’t set out to be a civil rights hero. And she didn’t promote herself as one. But she played a key role in ending the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans – many of them U ...

Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.