LITTLE ROCK — Karen Korematsu, co-founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights, will speak Tuesday at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.
The institute is named for Korematsu’s father, who spent 40 years fighting his 1942 arrest for refusing to be incarcerated in the government’s World War II camps for Japanese Americans. He appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him, saying the incarceration was justified because of military necessity.
Forty years later, the discovery of new evidence allowed Korematsu to reopen his case, and his conviction was overturned by a federal court in San Francisco.
The institute was founded in 2009 on the 25th anniversary of the vacated conviction.
Seats for the 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. lecture in Sturgis Hall can be reserved by e-mailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or by calling (501) 683-5239.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 09/29/2012