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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 of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Fred Korematsu died in 2005, but every year on January 30 (his birthday), several states recognize his work and sacrifice on Korematsu Day, and 80 years later, the case still serves as a reminder of the need to protect civil liberties even during times of insecurity.
United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on December 18, 1944, upheld (6–3) the conviction of Fred Korematsu—a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II.
Fred Korematsu was a civil rights leader and pioneer. Fred Korematsu refused Japanese Internment Orders. He spent his life fighting against discrimination in the United States.
HISTORY & CULTURE. How Fred Korematsu defied Japanese incarceration in the U.S. during WWII. In the landmark Supreme Court case Korematsu v. U.S., the civil rights icon challenged the order...
Korematsu argued that Executive Order 9066 violated the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was thus unconstitutional. The Fifth Amendment was selected over the Fourteenth Amendment due to the lack of federal protections in the Fourteenth Amendment. He was arrested and convicted.
United States v. Korematsu was a criminal action brought against Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu for resisting mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Korematsu was convicted and given five years probation.
Challenger of World War II exclusion and confinement, Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (1919-2005) dedicated his life to the civil rights crusade that would eventually earn him a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Fred T. Korematsu was an American citizen who believed in democracy and justice for all. He was an ordinary man who wasn’t afraid to speak up against the government’s wrongful imprisonment of over 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII.