AANHPI History Calendar

· California

First Fred Korematsu Day

achievement

California observed the first Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution on Jan 30-Korematsu's birthday-making it the first US holiday named for an Asian American; several states later adopted it.

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • civil rights
Event type
  • achievement/first

Sources

Also on January 30

history

Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 Signed

The Kingdom of Hawaii and the US signed the Reciprocity Treaty, granting Hawaiian sugar duty-free US access and binding the islands economically to America-accelerating the plantation economy and the path to annexation. (Shares Jan 30 with Fred Korematsu Day.)