Korematsu, who died in 2005 in Marin County, California, would have turned 98 Monday. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, approved the incarceration of about 120,000 people — most of Japanese descent, and two-thirds of them U.S. citizens — who were taken from their homes. He lost his landmark case before the Supreme Court and was sent to a Utah relocation center. Arnold Schwarzenegger — long before replacing President Donald Trump as “Celebrity Apprentice” host — signed the Fred Korematsu Day bill, creating the first day in American history to be named for an Asian-American. Monday’s Google Doodle — of Korematsu wearing his Medal of Freedom and surrounded by symbolic cherry blossoms — is by Sophie Diao, the daughter of Asian immigrants.

Source: National Post January 30, 2017 18:05 UTC