Southern California members of Congress are helping lead a bipartisan effort to get Congress to award its highest civilian honor to the late civil rights pioneer Fred Korematsu. The Japanese American ...

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 Japanese ...

The legacy of civil rights activist Fred Korematsu (1919-2005), who famously challenged the mass imprisonment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans during WWII, is spotlighted in “Am I An American or Am ...

WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah, during World War II with the Congressional Gold ...

Prologue : a San Francisco courtroom -- The son of immigrants, but all-American -- The call to get rid of the "Japs" -- Fred's decision to live free -- Jail was better than camp -- The rocky, winding ...

Join us for a fireside chat with Dr. Karen Korematsu, the founder and president of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, and the daughter of the late civil rights icon, Fred Korematsu. Fred Korematsu was ...