On Dec. 19, 2022, the New Jersey Senate passed NJ Assembly Joint Resolution 98, a bill to establish January 30 of each year as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution of New Jersey ...

On Thursday, Illinois and three other states are honoring Fred Korematsu, the late civil rights activist. Korematsu, a Japanese-American, was... Honoring A Japanese-American Who Fought Against ...

Days after President Trump used an executive order to dramatically shift U.S. immigration policy, Fred Korematsu Day is attracting special attention. It was an executive order in 1942 that created the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses supporters before signing legislation to repeal the 1931 abortion ban statute, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California dedicated Jan. 30 to the memory of Fred Korematsu, a shipyard welder who legally objected to Japanese American ...

He had just changed his name and undergone plastic surgery to alter his eyes. All he wanted was to be left alone. On May 30, 1942, Fred Korematsu was waiting for his girlfriend on a street corner in ...

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 ...

Fred Korematsu was a 23-year-old Californian in 1942 when — unlike his parents — he refused to comply with then-President Franklin Roosevelt’s order to report to an internment camp for ...