Fred Korematsu, the Oakland native whose refusal to go to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II and resulting legal battle to clear his name made him a symbol of civil rights, died Wednesday. He was 86.
His attorney said the longtime San Leandro resident died at his daughter's Larkspur home. The cause was respiratory illness.
Korematsu's four-decade fight with the U.S. government ended in 1983, when the 9th Circuit federal court in San Francisco overturned his conviction for opposing internment orders. He was also instrumental in winning a national apology and reparations for internment camp survivors and their families in 1988... more ...
(PBS)PBS produced a documentary about Fred in 2001 entitled "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story".
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