Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

In 1941, following Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Government rounded up more than 100,000 Japanese Americans ... family was sent to an internment camp in Arkansas.

WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in Topaz ... 120,000 Japanese Americans during World ...

Eventually, most were sent to relocation centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be ...

The connection between the Asian American community and basketball goes back to the Japanese internment camps during World War II, when internees used the sport as a way to pass the time and to cope ...

California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...

EDITORIAL: Lessons from the ugly Fred Korematsu decision in 1944 Eventually most were sent to relocation centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or ...