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Fighting for Pan-Ethnic Civil Rights | 2012

Karen Korematsu spoke at the Clinton School of Public Service on October 2nd, 2012. Karen Korematsu is co-founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights, which is named for her father who spent 40 years fighting his 1942 arrest for refusing to be incarcerated in the government’s WWII incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. He appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him, saying the incarceration was justified due to military necessity. Forty years later, the discovery of new evidence allowed Korematsu to reopen his case and his conviction was overturned by a federal court in San Francisco. Founded in 2009 on the 25th anniversary of the vacated conviction, the Korematsu Institute advances pan-ethnic civil rights and human rights through education.