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Rana Elmir During World War II, a 23-year-old Japanese-American named Fred Korematsu valiantly fought the U.S. government’s efforts to put him in an incarceration camp. His epic legal battles provide both inspiration and insight as America grapples with the ongoing fallout from Donald Trump’s shameful Muslim ban. When I think about my personal heroes, one of the people high on the list is Fred T. Korematsu, whose birthday this weekend was marked by events held in his honor around the country.  Like a lot of people, I first learned about the civil rights activist in a high school civics c...

California Dedicates Jan. 30 to Fred Korematsu Who Defied Japanese American Concentration Camps California dedicated Jan. 30 to the memory of Fred Korematsu, a shipyard welder who legally objected to Japanese American “internment” in World War II. The state holiday, officially the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, was signed into law by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sept. 23, 2010. “Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold decision at the age of 23 to challenge the policy of Japanese internment forever altered the course...

Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and Fairplex in Pomona, then known as the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, were both Civilian Assembly Centers, temporary camps where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government were sent to Detention Camps. Korematsu lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1944 that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity. Legal historian Peter Ir...

Governor Issues Proclamation Declaring Fred Korematsu Day Posted On Fred Korematsu received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1998. SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday issued the following proclamation declaring Jan. 30, 2021, as Fred Korematsu Day in the State of California: =*= Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold decision at the age of 23 to challenge the policy of Japanese internment forever altered the course of history. This year, as we commemorate the 102nd anniversary of his birth, we reflect with gratitude ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom Issues Proclamation Declaring Saturday, January 30, 2021 as Fred Korematsu Day Published: Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:54 January 30, 2021 - SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday issued a proclamation declaring Saturday, January 30, 2021, as Fred Korematsu Day in the State of California. PROCLAMATION Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold decision at the age of 23 to challenge the policy of Japanese internment forever altered the course of history. This year, as we commemorate the 102nd anniversary of his birt...