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- Fred Korematsu was probably never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese Americans in U.S. concentration camps, during World War II.This documentary takes a personal look at Korematsu, a 1999 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, who attempted to conceal his identity as a Japanese American, became alienated from this family and community, and then made the complex decision to become a legal “test case” against the U.S. government’s...
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Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case in 1944, but never his indignation and resolve. OF CIVIL WRONGS AND RIGHTS is the untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory. TWO TIME EMMY AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY (24 MINS.)
This moving and engrossing documentary reveals the untold story of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu – one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory. Fred Korematsu was honored with: The Presidential Medal of Freedom. Jesse Jackson’s PUSH/Rainbow Coalition Award.
Jan 27, 2011 · "Of Civil Wrongs And Rights" is the untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu - one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory. In 1998,...
Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Documentary film by Eric Paul Fournier that chronicles the story of American civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu , whose refusal to obey orders prohibiting Japanese Americans from remaining on the West Coast led to a landmark Supreme Court case .
Apr 6, 2000 · by Fred Camper April 6, 2000. Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story. This immensely moving 1999 film documents the legal battle waged by Fred Korematsu, a young...
Jul 23, 2000 · With all that's known about WWII, "Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Koematsu Story" proves there's still more to learn. Most people today admit it was wrong to round up and rob thousands of ...
