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1894. Recognizing the historic value of the home, Leslie J. Freeman, who was a member of <br />San Leandro’s Chamber of Commerce, sought to have it registered as a historical landmark. <br />This was done on January 8, 1938 when the Estudillo home was designated as California <br />Historical Landmark No. 279. <br /> <br />Mary Brown Room (Main Library) <br />Mary Brown was the first librarian of San Leandro. The Library Board of Trustees appointed <br />Miss Mary Brown as the first official librarian for the City of San Leandro on January 31, 1906. <br />According to one source, her starting salary was $12.50 per month. She completed one <br />course of study for library science at UC Berkeley. <br /> <br />In May of 1909, the City’s new Carnegie Library was dedicated and opened to the public. <br />Miss Brown lived only a short distance from the library at 425 Estudillo Avenue. She was <br />highly respected by the entire community and was known to be very well informed and knew <br />her job well. She served as the city’s librarian until she retired in November of 1938. <br /> <br /> <br />Fred T. Korematsu Campus (SLUSD) <br />Fred Korematsu was awarded the Medal of Freedom for fighting against the injustice of <br />Japanese-American internment during WW II. Refusing to comply with an order for all <br />Japanese Americans to be interned, Mr. Korematsu was arrested and jailed in San Leandr o <br />in 1942. He was then sent to the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah. He then spent 40 years <br />appealing this violation of his constitutional rights. <br /> <br />On November 10, 1983, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of U.S. District Court in San Francisco <br />formally vacated the conviction. Korematsu testified before Judge Patel, "I would like to see <br />the government admit that they were wrong and do something about it so this will never <br />happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color." He also said, "If anyone <br />should do any pardoning, I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to <br />the Japanese-American people." Peter Irons described Korematsu's ending statement during <br />the case as the most powerful statement he'd ever heard from anyone. He found the <br />statement as empowering as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.[33] <br />Judge Patel's ruling cleared Korematsu's name, but was incapable of overturning the <br />Supreme Court's decision. <br /> <br />President Bill Clinton awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor <br />in the United States, to Korematsu in 1998, saying, "In the long history of our country's <br />constant search for justice, some names of ordinary citizens stand for millions of souls: <br />Plessy, Brown, Parks ... to that distinguished list, today we add the name of Fred Korematsu." <br />That year, Korematsu served as the Grand Marshal of San Francisco's annual Cherry <br />Blossom Festival parade. <br /> <br />Korematsu spoke out after September 11, 2001, on how the United States government should <br />not let the same thing happen to people of Middle-Eastern descent as what happened to <br />Japanese Americans. When prisoners were detained at Guantanamo Bay for too long a <br />period, in Korematsu's opinion, he filed two amicus curiae briefs with the Supreme Court and <br />warned them not to repeat the mistakes of the Japanese internment. <br />134