Fred Korematsu was born in January 30th, 1919 in Oakland, California as the son of Japanese immigrants who ran a floral shop. His early life, he was discriminated because of his Japanese ancestry, getting turned away from the U.S. National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard. He later found work as a welder in the docks and was very skilled but all of a sudden one day, was fired for his Japanese ancestry yet again. Then, on Memorial day, 1942 he was arrested while walking with his girlfriend on the suspicion of being Japanese. Although he actually went through minor plastic surgery on his eyes to look less Japanese, he changed his name to Clyde Sarah and that he was of Spanish and Native Hawaiian descent and that his parents died in a fire. But, his
