Fred Korematsu Day & Curriculum: The Institute is also garnering community support to pass a landmark bill marking Fred Korematsu Day in the state of California. If successful, the day creates a significant opportunity to introduce curriculum to California’s public schools to teach students about Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American internment as well as current civil rights issues related to national security policies. On May 20, 2010, the Assembly Floor passed the bill with an overwhelming, bipartisan vote of 69-0. The next step will be a hearing in the Senate on June 30.

Museum exhibits: We are researching and preparing materials to include Fred Korematsu’s story, along with the story of other internment resisters, in the museum collections of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose as well as other collections across the country.