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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...

A virtual celebration of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution will be held Saturday.

They weren't rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. of the axis powers, it was only the japanese americans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. why is that? why was it just them? in 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. he was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u.s. government locked up japanese americans. much to his surprise, peter irons stumbled upon a whole bunch of evidence on where that policy came from. it was evidence that had been lost to history. it had never...

He was fiercely opposed to internment. he thought it was wrong. he fought it. his case went all the way to the supreme court, and fred korematsu in the sup court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fact, at the time, had all sorts of contrary evidence. they had all these internal reports. they had in...