Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to require all Japanese-Americans in "Military Area No. 1" (the West Coast "exclusion zone") to report to the Internment Camps. Fred Korematsu was born in 1919 to Japanese parents living in Oakland, … Wikipedia
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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu being congratulated by President Bill Clinton on receiving the Medal of Freedom. www.medaloffreedom.com/FredKorematsu.htm
Korematsu died Wednesday of respiratory illness at his daughter's home in Larkspur, California said his attorney Dale Minami . ... Korematsu became a symbol of civil rights for challenging the World War II internment orders that sent 120,000 Japanese A fredsociety.com/news/news_korematsu.html
During World War II, the U.S. government ordered 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry into prison camps. Fred Korematsu , an American citizen of Japanese descent, refused to go, and his case went before the Supreme Court. ... Born of Issei immigrant p www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria18_3.htm
Born in Oakland, California in 1919, Fred Korematsu was the son of Japanese immigrants. Until December 7, 1941, Korematsu had been living the life of a typical American male: he worked as a welder in the San Francisco shipyards, owned a convertible, and www.feri.org/kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=3006
Mr. Fred Korematsu , Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, accepted our invitation and addressed an Elderhostel at the Lenna Theater in the Chautauqua Institution on September 26, 2002. ... The film presents the story of this legendary man whose legal www.roberthjackson.org/Center/thecenter3-4-6-4/