Fred T. Korematsu was one of the individuals who refused to comply with Civilian Exclusion Order 34, based on the federal Executive Order 9066, which imposed strict curfew regulations and required 120,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes to be incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II.  Mr. Korematsu was arrested and convicted, but he fought back because he believed the conviction went against the basic freedoms guaranteed to him by the U.S. Constitution.  Mr. Korematsu remained an activist for civil rights and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton, and we proclaim January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution to honor his example of civil rights activism and civil disobedience in the name of equal rights for all Americans.