Rep. Celeste Maloy and three other lawmakers have introduced a bill to honor civil rights activist Fred Korematsu, held in a ...
Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.
(This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War II. It is supported by funding from the California Public Library ...
Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...
In Nevada, the deadliest plane crash was in 1964. A four-engine Constellation operated by California’s Paradise Airlines traveling from Oakland crashed in a mountain near Lake Tahoe after two failed ...
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.
Oakland, United States - January 28, 2025 Three orphaned mountain lion cubs, found wandering in Portola Valley, are now ...
California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...