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Civil Rights Icon Fred Korematsu Honored by State of Michigan at Huron High School Ceremony

February 4, 2014 AAPS News Editor

Korematsu is a civil liberties icon who defied the U.S. government’s order for Japanese Americans to report to an assembly center after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1944. […]