The Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution is celebrated on January 30 in California and a growing number of additional states to commemorate...
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Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松豊三郎, Korematsu Toyosaburo, January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005) was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment...
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to internment camps. However, a 23-year-old Japanese-American man, Fred Korematsu, refused to leave the exclusion zone and instead challenged the order...
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The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education is a non-profit organization which advances pan-ethnic civil rights and human rights through...
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Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating...
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Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grund'sau dåk, Grundsaudaag, Grundsow Dawg, Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a tradition observed regionally...
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bill that would name January 30 Fred Korematsu Day, making this the first day to be named after an Asian American. Korematsu v. United States was officially...
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Lee–Jackson–King Day was a holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1984 to 2000 as a combination of Lee–Jackson Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. From...
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Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated in the United States on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal...
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(Kansas, United States) January 30 Day of Azerbaijani customs (Azerbaijan) Day of Saudade (Brazil) Fred Korematsu Day (California, United States) Martyrdom...
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parade. On January 30, 2011, California first observed an annual "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution", the first such ceremony...
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Lee–Jackson Day was a state holiday in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, commemorating Confederate commanders, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Its...
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Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a holiday observed in several...
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Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Day of Remembrance (Japanese Americans) Empty Chair Memorial Fred Korematsu Day Mitsuye Endo Go for Broke Monument...
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the exclusion for the Supreme Court cases of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu. Concerned that Japanese Americans would become more dependent on the...
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American Gold Star Mothers (redirect from Gold Star Mother’s Day)
Star Mother's and Family's Day". On September 23, 2017, President Donald Trump proclaimed Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day. American Gold Star Manor...
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(schools closed) January 23 – Ed Roberts Day (schools open, but with related instructions) January 30 – Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties (schools open,...
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of April. Also, the public holidays in May, connected with Labour day and Victory day, can be an accurate equivalent of the spring break. In South Korea...
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Act Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Renunciation Act of 1944 Day of Remembrance Fred Korematsu Day Empty Chair Memorial Go for Broke Monument Japanese American...
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black marketing by camp administrators. To make matters worse, JACL leader Fred Tayama was beaten by six masked men on the evening of December 5. Harry Ueno...
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the legal fiction that Korematsu dealt with only the exclusion of Japanese Americans, not their detention, and that Fred Korematsu could have gone anywhere...
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school board to set aside the afternoon of Douglass's birthday as Douglass Day to teach about his life and work in the city's segregated public schools...
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on Thanksgiving Day. As the only major parade on Canadian Thanksgiving, it is televised nationally. Coincidentally, the closing day of the Bavarian Oktoberfest...
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Exclusion Memorial Day of Remembrance (Japanese Americans) Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project Empty Chair Memorial Fred Korematsu Day Harada House...
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Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in parts of the Southern US, commemorating the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. It is rooted in the rise of the...
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"Whitmer Signs Bills to Expand Elliott_Larsen Civil Rights Act_Establish Fred Korematsu Day". www.michigan.gov. Retrieved 2023-06-05. Watson, Michelle; Mizelle...
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Sharp Park Detention Station (section Present day)
build the camp in 1933, providing food, lodging, medical care and 25 cents a day. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed...
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Loyalty Day is observed on May 1 in the United States. It was proclaimed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a day for declaring loyalty to the United...
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Wright Brothers Day (December 17) is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights...
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Act Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Renunciation Act of 1944 Day of Remembrance Fred Korematsu Day Empty Chair Memorial Go for Broke Monument Japanese American...
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