The UC Irvine School of Law celebrated the opening of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality this week with dignitaries and civil rights activists including California Attorney General Rob ...

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 ...

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It was an executive order in 1942 that created the system forcing Americans of Japanese descent to live in internment camps. Days after President Trump used an executive order to dramatically shift ...