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Monday, 31 January 2011

Fred Korematsu: Statewide California holiday honors civil rights hero Fred Korematsu - latimes.com

Fred Korematsu: Statewide California holiday honors civil rights hero Fred Korematsu - latimes.com: "Twenty-nine eager fifth-grade faces stare up at Ines Trinh between recess and lunch one day last week. The children have been studying stories about perseverance in the face of pain; 'Give It All You've Got,' the lesson's catchy theme, is printed in big letters on a poster in Room 21.

The teacher has just read her young students at Lorenzo Manor Elementary School a book called 'The Bracelet.' It's the story of Emi, a Berkeley second-grader sent to an internment camp during World War II just because she was Japanese American. New vocabulary words: 'Injustice.' 'Inequality.'"

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