Fred Korematsu
Fred Korematsu
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsuwas one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast of the United States at the onset of World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War and his military commanders to remove all individuals of Japanese ancestry from designated "military areas" and place them in internment camps in what is known as the Japanese American internment. When such orders...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth30 January 1919
CountryUnited States of America
Fred Korematsu quotes about
All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.
I'm an American and just as long as I'm in this country that I will keep on going and if there is a chance of reopening the case, I will do it.