On December 6, El Cerrito’s city council’s voted unanimously to declare Jan. 30 as “Fred Korematsu Day,” in honor of the East Bay resident who resisted World War II incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Patch article: Council to Vote on Honoring Fred Korematsu, Who Defied Wartime Relocation
Patch article: Not Your Ordinary City Council Meeting
Patch article: Honoring He Who Was Right
Post-9/11 Civil Rights Oral History Workshop 5/22
Pasadena Unified School District board passes Fred Korematsu Day resolution
Karen Korematsu speaks out on indefinite detention
KI director discusses Jeremy Lin and Asian American civil rights
Fred Korematsu becomes first Asian American in Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery civil rights exhibition
Governor Brown proclaims California’s second annual Fred Korematsu Day
California state schools chief Tom Torlakson urges public to observe Fred Korematsu Day
Celebrate Fred Korematsu Day January 30!
