The Minoru Yasui film project is launching a fundraising campaign to complete the film, “Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice,” that celebrates Yasui’s legacy. Minoru Yasui was a ...

With 12:48 remaining in Oregon’s second top-10 test of 2025, the Ducks had new life. True freshman Brandon Finney Jr.’s pick-six score... In the spring of 1986, more than 40 years after World War II ...

KUSA – Local civil rights leader Minoru Yasui will posthumously receive the nation's highest civilian honor. The White House announced Monday it will award Yasui the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese American to graduate from the University of Oregon’s law school. He was working as a lawyer in Portland when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A Japanese-American activist who spent nine months in solitary confinement in 1942, then the rest of his life fighting for civil rights for all Americans received the nation's ...

The tiny cell that once held Oregon civil rights pioneer Minoru Yasui in solitary confinement high above downtown Portland’s streets in the old Multnomah County Jail was dedicated Saturday. Yasui was ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Relatives of a civil rights attorney being honored posthumously this week with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for challenging the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War ...

This month, Minoru Yasui will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, for challenging the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in concentration ...

Equality for all was a life-long mission for attorney Minoru Yasui, one of a handful of Japanese-Americans leading the U.S. Supreme Court battle against World War II exclusion and internment. After ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Minoru Yasui was instrumental in ...

This is how fear mongering works. The year could be 1942 … or 2015. “I’m reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl ...

Sunday is Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon. Despite this annual honor, enacted by the Oregon Legislature five years ago, the late “Min” Yasui is not particularly well-known in his native state. But his ...