The forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. Wikipedia
American civil rights activist who objected to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of individuals of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast from their homes and their mandatory imprisonment in internment camps, but Korematsu instead challenged the orders and became a fugitive. Wikipedia
American politician, federal judge, lawyer and law professor. Member of the Democratic Party. Wikipedia
American attorney and former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Cited even as the speech has passed its 59th anniversary. Wikipedia
American lawyer in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was, most immediately, the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, the top federal prosecutor position in the state. Wikipedia
American civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." Wikipedia
Sentences forMinoru Yasui
- On June 12, 1942, as district court judge Fee began presiding over the trial of Minoru Yasui, a native Oregonian of Japanese descent who was on trial for breaking curfew.James Alger Fee-Wikipedia
- In 1939, the law school graduated Minoru Yasui, who later took his challenge to the military curfew on Japanese Americans during World War II all the way to the United States Supreme Court.University of Oregon School of Law-Wikipedia
- In addition to teaching and authoring several books, he has also helped reopen the wartime internment cases of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gordon Hirabayashi.Peter H. Irons-Wikipedia
- As a member of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), Tanonaka created and initially endowed the AAJA Minoru Yasui Memorial Scholarship in memory of the late civil rights advocate.Dalton Tanonaka-Wikipedia
- As a companion case to Hirabayashi v. United States, both decided on June 21, 1943, the court affirmed the conviction of U.S.-born Minoru Yasui.Yasui v. United States-Wikipedia
- Minoru Yasui was born in 1916 in Hood River, Oregon, where he graduated from high school in 1933.Yasui v. United States-Wikipedia
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