Of Civil Wrongs and Rights

  • Cast: Fred Korematsu, Rosa Parks, Bill Clinton
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Rating: N/A/10
  • Release Date: 2000-06-07

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.