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Serrano serves as the law school’s director of faculty research and is a professor of law and associate director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.
The Korean American immigrant was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1973—sparking a movement and the Free Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee.
On January 30, California celebrates Fred Korematsu Day. If you’re like most Americans, you’re probably still wondering who this guy was, what he did to be recognized with an official day, or why he still
Fred Korematsu was the young man who gave his name to the Supreme Court decision that upheld incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as constitutional. Yet Korematsu’s battle, influence, and legacy go far beyond that loss.
Families were stripped of their rights and freedoms in February 1942, when FDR signed Executive Order 9066