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DVD

Of civil wrongs and rights : the Fred Korematsu story

Call Number

  • DVD 940.5472 O31 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[New York] : Docurama : distributed by New Video, [2006].

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Added Uniform Title

POV (Television program)

Summary

"In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary, a civil rights champion." -- container.

Notes

Originally broadcast on the television program POV in July 2001.

DVD features: filmaker interviews; filmmaker biography.

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