Fred Korematsu

Fred Korematsu

1919-01-30
86 (2005-03-30)
Oakland, California, USA

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Oakland, California, USA

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Unfinished Business 1985 (5.7)

1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Of Civil Wrongs and Rights 2000

Eric Paul Fournier's Emmy Award-winning film chronicles the remarkable life of Japanese-American Fred Korematsu, who was stripped of his rights and sent to an internment camp in 1942. For the next 39 years, Korematsu -- an ordinary shipyard worker -- fought against Executive Order 9066. Taking his relentless quest for civil rights all the way to the Supreme Court, he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.