Saturday, May 25, 2013
FRED KOREMATSU DAY
Fight for justice inspires local students
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 30, 2013
~~<p>Karen Korematsu was sitting in social studies class listening to a book report on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II when the sound of her last name caught her by surprise.</p>
<p>Her classmate explained that one man had resisted military orders to move to an internment camp and challenged the race-based relocation in a case known as Kore­ma­tsu v. the United States.</p>
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Karen Korematsu was sitting in social studies class listening to a book report on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II when the sound of her last name caught her by surprise.
Her classmate explained that one man had resisted military orders to move to an internment camp and challenged the race-based relocation in a case known as Korematsu v. the United States. Login for more...
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