The legacy of Oregon civil rights attorney Minoru Yasui is now part of a signature exhibit at the Obama Presidential Center Museum.
Photo provided by the Minoru Yasui Legacy Project
The Minoru Yasui Legacy Project announced that footage of Yasui is featured in Power of Words, an 88-foot digital installation that highlights speeches and voices that have inspired social progress. The exhibit includes a clip from a 1986 lecture Yasui gave at the University of California, San Diego, where he spoke about the responsibility of citizens to stand up against injustice.
Photo provided by the Minoru Yasui Legacy Project
Born in Hood River, Yasui is best known for challenging the wartime military curfew imposed on Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066 in 1942. President Barack Obama posthumously awarded him the nation’s highest civilian honor in 2015. Oregon also honors his legacy each year on March 28, officially recognized as Minoru Yasui Day.
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