On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court announced one of its most controversial decisions ever. The Korematsu decision is still controversial, since it allowed the federal government to detain a ...

When President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Friday barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States and banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, protests ...

Civil rights activist Fred Korematsu was honored with a Google Doodle on Monday to mark the 98th anniversary of his birth. The illustration was created by artist Sophie Diao who, like Korematsu, is ...

Robert H. Jackson had already etched a lasting legacy in United States history before November 21, 1945. Up to that point Jackson – who mind you never attended college before becoming a lawyer in 1913 ...

Southern California members of Congress are helping lead a bipartisan effort to get Congress to award its highest civilian honor to the late civil rights pioneer Fred Korematsu. The Japanese American ...

Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred T. Korematsu and founder and executive cirector of The Fred T. Korematsu Institute. Submitted photo The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to present “The Fight for ...

In 1998, Fred Korematsu was a fragile reed of a man. But in the East Room of the White House, the septuagenarian stood up straight and tall as he heard President Clinton say, "Plessy, Brown, Parks ...

He had just changed his name and undergone plastic surgery to alter his eyes. All he wanted was to be left alone. On May 30, 1942, Fred Korematsu was waiting for his girlfriend on a street corner in ...

The Supreme Court finally took the step of overruling Korematsu vs. United States last week, its 1944 decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese Americans from their homes along the West Coast ...

For Karen Korematsu, the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to overturn a long-criticized opinion involving her father’s internment during World War II should have been a happy moment. In a 5-4 ...