Acting

Fred Korematsu

Born January 30, 1919 · Oakland, California, USA

Died March 30, 2005 · aged 86

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Known For

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business · 1985

Unfinished Business

MovieDocumentaryWar

1985 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.

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights · 2000

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights

MovieDocumentary

Eric 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.

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Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business · 1985

Unfinished Business

MovieDocumentaryWar

1985 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.

Self

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights · 2000

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights

MovieDocumentary

Eric 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.

Self (archive footage)