Fred Korematsu Day Film Screening & Discussion: “Of Civil Rights and Wrongs”
In 1942, at the age of 23, Korematsu refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled against him, arguing that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity.
On Tuesday, February 9, at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, we honored Fred Korematsu, a civil rights hero by holding a special screening of the documentary “Of Civil Rights and Wrongs” which followed by reflections by a group of panelists, including a former internee of the Japanese internment camps.
SPONSORS: Asian Americans Advancing Justice-
Chicago CAIR-Chicago, National Lawyers Guild-
Chicago TUPOCC, Japanese American Citizens
League
STUDENT GROUP SPONSORS: Chicago-Kent
chapters of NLG, ACS, APALSA, ILS, MLSA
