Acting
Fred Korematsu
Born — Died
1919-01-30 — 2005-03-30
Place of birth
Oakland, California, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Known for
6.51985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.
Unfinished Business
1985
8.0Eric Paul Fournier's Emmy Award-winning film chronicles the remarkable life of Japanese-American Fred Korematsu, who was stripped of his rights and sent to an internment camp in 1942. For the next 39 years, Korematsu -- an ordinary shipyard worker -- fought against Executive Order 9066. Taking his relentless quest for civil rights all the way to the Supreme Court, he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights
2000