Minoru Yasui is featured in the Obama Presidential Center's The Power of Words exhibit, recognizing his enduring impact on civil rights and justice.

(Photo courtesy National Archives and Records Administration) As you know in 2014 and 2015, I and others, spearheaded an effort for my former client, Minoru Yasui, to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from then President Barack Obama. An award Yasui richly deserved for his courageous and principled stand during World War II as he had intentionally violated the military curfew imposed upon all persons of Japanese Ancestry to test its constitutionality. I am now working