Minoru yasui biography of albert
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Minoru Yasui
Minoru “Min” Yasui (1916–86) was one of four Japanese Americans who fought the legality of exclusion and/or detention during World War II all the way to the Supreme Court.
After the war, the Oregon-born attorney settled in Denver and had a long and distinguished career with the city’s Community Relations Commission.
Minoru yasui biography of albert
He was famously credited with preventing the race riots that ignited in other major U.S. cities after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King because he had built strong relationships with the city’s African American community.
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The official, full-length documentary film, Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice.
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Minoru Yasui, having been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S.
Army Reserves, reported for duty at Fort Vancouver, across the river from Portland, Oregon.
However, he was told he could not serve due to his ancestry. Rejected by the m