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Fort Lee Honors Civil Rights Leader Fred T. Korematsu

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Fort Lee Nj, in a special ceremony at Borough Hall , Fort lee paid tribute to Civil Rights Leader and Pioneer Fred T. Korematsu. Korematsu believed that the United States’ decision to send Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War Two was racial discrimination and a violation of the Constitution.

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Today is National Beer Day

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Ridgewood NJ, National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act was enacted after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. This led to the Eighteenth Amendment being repealed on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. April 6, the day prior to National Beer Day, is known as New Beer’s Eve.

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