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El distrito de San Dieguito aprueba la última unidad del nuevo currículo de estudios étnicos

San Diego Union-Tribune 26 Dec 2024
Las lecciones destacarán a líderes por el cambio social como la líder laboral Dolores Huerta, el activista y político de derechos civiles John Lewis, y Fred Korematsu, el activista que luchó contra el ...
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San Dieguito district approves last unit of new ethnic studies curriculum

San Diego Union-Tribune 23 Dec 2024
Lessons will spotlight leaders for social change like farmworker labor leader Dolores Huerta, civil rights activist and politician John Lewis, and Fred Korematsu, the activist who fought against the ...
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Korematsu Institute Publicly Debuts Short Documentary, “Error Before Us” in Honor of 80th Anniversary of ...

GetNews 18 Dec 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024 - San Francisco, CA - The Fred T ... In October 2023, the Fred T. Korematsu Institute commemorated the 40th anniversary of the coram nobis cases of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui in San Francisco ... Fred T.
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Lessons from the ugly Korematsu decision

LA Daily News 18 Dec 2024
Oakland-born Fred Korematsu defied the order and was arrested and jailed for daring to be free. Korematsu challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, arguing that it violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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UCI opens new civil rights law center named for Japanese-American who fought 1942 internment order

Orange County Register 23 Oct 2024
The Korematsu Center, which moved from Seattle to Irvine, honors the legacy of civil rights hero Fred Korematsu who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II ... The Korematsu ...
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AZ Briefing: GOP committee wants to impeach Kris Mayes; Possible new shopping center coming to this Valley city; How to see the Devil Comet

Azcentral 30 May 2024
Supreme Court, dedicated the memorial that has, through the decades, maintained symbolic significance within and beyond the Civil Rights Movement.In 1942, Japanese American Fred Korematsu was arrested for refusing to be placed in an internment camp.
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Yolo County Board of Supervisors takes historic step to right past wrongs

The Daily Democrat 01 Mar 2024
“As WWII internment resister Fred T. Korematsu once said, ‘If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don’t be afraid to speak up,'” said former Supervisor and Assemblymember Mariko Yamada ... at Rotary Park in Winters ... .
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Japanese internment camp Day of Remembrance a time to ‘reckon with imperfections’

The Hill 19 Feb 2024
In 2021, he reintroduced the Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act ... He has also been fighting to honor Fred Korematsu, who refused to comply with Roosevelt’s executive order and appealed it before the Supreme Court.
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Statement from President Joe Biden on the Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration

The White House 19 Feb 2024
It was shameful ... We honor those service men and women, as well as the legacy of civil rights leaders like Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Mitsuye Endo, along with every Japanese American who organized and worked to right a wrong.
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On the Mark: Decisions

Corsicana Daily Sun 10 Feb 2024
The Court also ruled against Japanese American Fred Korematsu who had been cited for evading internment. Korematsu’s conviction was eventually overturned in 1983 ... Fred Korematsu spent the rest of his life as a leading civil liberties advocate.
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Remembering the courage of Fred Korematsu

The Seattle Times 30 Jan 2024
Fred Korematsu defied the order that incarcerated those with Japanese ancestry and fought his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court ... .
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Governor Newsom Proclaims Fred Korematsu Day 2024 (The Office of the Governor of the State of California)

Public Technologies 30 Jan 2024
SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring January 30, 2024, as Fred Korematsu Day ... Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold decision at ...
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Biden should honor woman who stood up to Japanese American incarceration

Messenger-Inquirer 20 Dec 2023
Many Americans have heard of Fred Korematsu, the Oakland, Calif., welder who lost his Supreme Court challenge to the banishment and incarceration of Japanese American citizens ... While Korematsu and ...
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Learning from the Korematsu decision

LA Daily News 17 Dec 2023
Oakland-born Fred Korematsu defied the order and was arrested and jailed for daring to be free. Korematsu challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, arguing that it violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

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