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Timely Google Doodle For Fred Korematsu, American Activist Against Internment Of Japanese Americans

Fred Korematsu Google Doodle

Google has a special and timely Google Doodle on the Google home page in the United States region for Fred Korematsu. Fred Korematsu was an American activist who fought against the the internment of Japanese Americans, which was instituted in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he issued Executive Order 9066.

Clearly, this Doodle takes aim at Trumps Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”.

Google wrote:

It wasn’t until later that he was praised by the US government as a hero. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s most distinguished civilian award.

He was born on January 30, 1919, 98 years ago, in Oakland, California and passed at the age of 86 on March 30, 2005 in California as well. He has numerous awards, monuments and more for his contributions to America and civil rights.

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