Min Yasui
Date of Birth:
Oct 19, 1916
Place of Birth:
Hood River, Oregon, USA
Date of Birth:
Oct 19, 1916
Place of Birth:
Hood River, Oregon, USA
Biography:
Minoru Yasui was an 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.
filmography:
1985