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A Japanese-American Internment Icon's Legacy and the Civil Rights Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

William Fisher
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NEW YORK – The Japanese-American who waited 40 years for justice is dead.

Fred Korematsu, hailed by many as the Rosa Parks (a heroine of the African American civil rights movement) of World War II, passed away Wednesday in the northern California community of Larkspur. He was 86.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , April 2005 , e16
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