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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday's Google Doodle honors anti-internment activist Fred Korematsu
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Korematsu
"Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松 豊三郎 Korematsu Toyosaburō?, January 30, 1919 March 30, 2005) was an American civil rights activist objecting to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized that all individuals of Japanese ancestry were to be removed from their homes and forced to live in internment camps, but Korematsu instead became a fugitive and challenged the orders.
The legality of the internment order was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States, but Korematsu's loss of his civil action against the United States Government was overturned decades later after the disclosure of new evidence challenging the necessity of the internment, evidence which had been withheld from the courts by the U.S. government during the war.
To commemorate his journey as a civil rights activist, the "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution" was observed for the first time on January 30, 2011, by the state of California, the first such commemoration for an Asian American in the United States. In 2015, Virginia passed legislation to make it the second state to permanently recognize each January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day.[1][2][3]
The Fred T. Korematsu Institute was founded in 2009 to carry on Korematsu's legacy as a civil rights advocate by educating and advocating for civil liberties for all communities." (More at link)
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Today's Google Doodle honors anti-internment activist Fred Korematsu (Original Post)
Tanuki
Jan 2017
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BSdetect
(8,989 posts)2. Its internment - fix title?
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)3. K & R
Thank you! Very relatable to current events.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)4. Very serendipitous that Fred Korematsu Day falls when we're battling repukes on the same issues.
Clicking on the Google image brings you to the excellent and lengthy Wikipedia article detailing the life and times of Fred Korematsu; as quoted above. The article has many similarities to what we're fighting for these days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Korematsu
dalton99a
(81,084 posts)7. Indeed.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)5. KNR Thank you!
DippyDem
(658 posts)6. BIG KNR!