The Fred T.
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“By requiring schools to incorporate the rich tapestry of Asian American and Hmong American narratives into their instructional programs, Wisconsin demonstrates a commitment to providing all our students with a comprehensive understanding of the nation’s diverse heritage.”

Wisconsin passed a new bill that requires that Asian and Hmong history be taught in Wisconsin K-12 schools. The Korematsu Institute champions #ethnicstudies programs to share with all students the role, culture, and important contributions to the collective history of all Americans, no matter what their background. Read more about the Wisconsin law here: shorturl.at/iAEHI
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“By requiring schools to incorporate the rich tapestry of Asian American and Hmong American narratives into their instructional programs, Wisconsin demonstrates a commitment to providing all our students with a comprehensive understanding of the nation’s diverse heritage.”

Wisconsin passed a new bill that requires that Asian and Hmong history be taught in Wisconsin K-12 schools. The Korematsu Institute champions #ethnicstudies programs to share with all students the role, culture, and important contributions to the collective history of all Americans, no matter what their background. Read more about the Wisconsin law here: https://shorturl.at/iAEHI

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga! Kathryn Bannai! Peggy Nagae! They are names we all should know.

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, Densho compiled a list of women who worked behind the scenes, in the US Archives and in the courtroom in the coram nobis cases of Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui who took on the government after Executive Order 9066 during WWII. Read more about their vital contributions here: shorturl.at/exPX2
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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga! Kathryn Bannai! Peggy Nagae! They are names we all should know. 

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, Densho compiled a list of women who worked behind the scenes, in the US Archives and in the courtroom in the coram nobis cases of Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui who took on the government after Executive Order 9066 during WWII. Read more about their vital contributions here: https://shorturl.at/exPX2

"Executive Order 9066 ripped people from their homes, their jobs, their education, their farms, and most people were never able to recover the loss that they suffered. My parents were incarcerated for 4 1/2 years." - Satsuki Ina

To control the narrative around the removal of citizens after Executive Order 9066, the government created a new department, the War Relocation Authority, and hired photographers to document the process. One of those photographers was Dorothea Lange, who had become famous during the 1930s for her Great Depression photographs for the Farm Security Administration. Many of Lange’s candid photos of the removal process weren’t approved for publication by the War Relocation Authority and were “impounded” for the duration of the war. They weren’t seen again widely until 1972, when her former assistant pulled them from the National Archives for a museum exhibit about the incarceration of Japanese Americans, called "Executive Order 9066."
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"... it also reminds us again, with the description of a new species, just how remarkable the state of California is and that there are always new discoveries waiting just around the corner. And, it was particularly poignant to name this spider species for Korematsu. He and his legacy are well known to many residents of Davis.” - James Bond, president-elect, American Arachnological Society

A new species of trapdoor spider, the Promyrmekiaphila korematsui, has been named after Fred Korematsu. Stemming from research from the Jason Bond laboratory at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, a new genus of California trapdoor spiders also highlights the diversity of arachnids in the state. Learn more here: shorturl.at/bdjT3
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... it also reminds us again, with the description of a new species, just how remarkable the state of California is and that there are always new discoveries waiting just around the corner. And, it was particularly poignant to name this spider species for Korematsu. He and his legacy are well known to many residents of Davis.” - James Bond,  president-elect, American Arachnological Society

A new species of trapdoor spider, the Promyrmekiaphila korematsui, has been named after Fred Korematsu. Stemming from research from the Jason Bond laboratory at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, a new genus of California trapdoor spiders also highlights the diversity of arachnids in the state. Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/bdjT3
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