California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...
Enumclaw Courier-Herald5d
Are we setting the stage for a modern Executive Order 9066? | In Focus
On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. About 120,000 out of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living in the continental U.S. were put in ten internment ...
Northwest Asian Weekly19h
Annual Day of Remembrance for incarcerated Japanese and Japanese Americans to be held on Feb. 8
The Puyallup Valley chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) will hold its 47th annual Day of Remembrance at ...
Los Angeles Daily News4d
California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment
honors the legacy of civil rights hero Fred Korematsu who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Japanese Americans returned from prison camps 80 years ago to face one of the country’s ‘greatest swindles’
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...