From the Jan. 30, 2011, Silicon Valley (Cal) Mercury News.
Statewide, Jan. 30th was to honor Fred Korematsui who fought against the internment of Japanese-Americans, a very dangerous thing to do back in the early days of the war. It was The Fred Korematsui Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
He was arrested in Oakland in 1942 for refusing to leave for the camp. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court which had to decide whether his internment and that of the other 120,000 Japanese-Americans was legal. They decided against him in 1944.
A San Francisco judge formally vacated his conviction 40 years later. President Clinton presented him with the Medal of Freedom in 1998. Mr. Korematsui died in 2005.
GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
No comments:
Post a Comment