Fred Korematsu

Fred Korematsu

Born: January 30, 1919
Died: March 30, 2005
in Oakland, California, USA
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Movies for Fred Korematsu...

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights
Title: Of Civil Wrongs and Rights
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Eric Paul Fournier's Emmy Award-winning film chronicles the remarkable life of Japanese-American Fred Korematsu, who was stripped of his rights and sent to an internment camp in 1942. For the next 39 years, Korematsu -- an ordinary shipyard worker -- fought against Executive Order 9066. Taking his relentless quest for civil rights all the way to the Supreme Court, he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.
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Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 1985
Type: Movie
1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.