A campaign is underway to honor a California woman who sacrificed years of her life to fight for Americans' constitutional rights, and ended up winning a landmark case in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Today is Minoru Yasui Day For this Oregon attorney, it s been a life s work oregonlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oregonlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Yasui was a 26-year-old law school graduated in March 1942 when he decided to step out into the streets of Portland after dark in defiance of a curfew imposed on people of Japanese descent. The cell is on permanent display at Portland's Japanese American Museum of Oregon.