The Davis City Council unanimously approved in 1943 a resolution stating that American citizens of Japanese descent should be rounded up and sent to prison camps. The council, led by then Mayor Covell, also decreed that those "Japs," as they were often referred to in the day, should not be let back into Davis after the war was over. In 2005, the council named Fred T. Korematsu Elementary School after Fred T. Korematsu, a Japanese man who was instrumental in fighting the World War II Japanese internment and playing a part in the redress movement.
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