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Eric Paul Fournier

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights

  • Documentary

The Fred Korematsu Story

RELEASE

2000-06-07

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LENGTH

60 min

Description

Eric Paul Fournier's Emmy Award-winning film chronicles the remarkable life of Japanese-American Fred Korematsu, who was stripped of his rights and sent to an internment camp in 1942. For the next 39 years, Korematsu -- an ordinary shipyard worker -- fought against Executive Order 9066. Taking his relentless quest for civil rights all the way to the Supreme Court, he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.