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1980-01-01 |
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| Name | Minoru Yasui |
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, Oregon , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 19, 1916
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| Died | November 12, 1986
(70 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Nov 20, 2015 08:26pm |
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| Info | Minoru "Min" Yasui (Japanese: 安井稔 Yasui Minoru, October 19, 1916 – November 12, 1986) was a Japanese American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups.
His case would make its way to the United States Supreme Court, where his conviction for breaking curfew was affirmed. After internment during most of World War II, he moved to Denver, Colorado in 1944. In Denver, Yasui married and became a local leader in civic affairs, including leadership positions in the Japanese American Citizens League. In 1986, his criminal conviction was overturned by the federal court.
In 2015, Senator Mazie K. Hirono nominated Yasui for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award civilian award of the United States.[1] On November 16, 2015, President Barack Obama announced that Yasui would receive a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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