• Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松豊三郎, Korematsu Toyosaburo, January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005) was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment...
  • Fred Korematsu was a civil rights leader and pioneer. Fred Korematsu refused Japanese Internment Orders. He spent his life fighting against discrimination...
  • Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American citizen who stood up for his civil rights during World War II when the government detained him because of his Japanese...
  • She knew the address, so he couldn’t help wondering what was delaying her.
  • He fought against his forced imprisonment, all the way to the Supreme Court. Today, the National Park Service helps interpret the dark history behind World War II...
  • In 1942, 23-year-old Oakland native Fred Korem-atsu refused to go to an internment camp on the basis of his Japanese heritage and challenged the U.S...
  • On this day, and every other day of the year, we hope that his story of perseverance in the face of […]
  • In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans.
  • Fred Korematsuactivist Born: 1919Birthplace: Oakland, Calif. Korematsu was born to a Japanese-American family that owned a flower nursery. After World War II...
  • Fred Korematsu was a civil rights activist from the United States. He fought for the rights of Japanese-Americans in World War II.