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 ...

The Robert H. Jackson Center’s Cappa Theatre was filled to capacity with community members, mostly area students, for the Center’s annual Constitution Day lecture featuring Dr. Karen Korematsu, ...

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 ...

Just a couple of months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered that anyone of Japanese descent be removed from the West Coast. In one ...