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MI SR0205
Resolution
AI Summary
- Endorses the nomination of Minoru Yasui for a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Recognizes Yasui as the first Japanese American member of the Oregon State Bar who intentionally violated WWII military curfew orders to challenge their constitutionality.
- Acknowledges Yasui's lifelong commitment to diversity and equality, including founding community organizations and serving as executive director of the Denver Commission on Community Relations.
- Credits Yasui with helping build the redress movement that led to passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which provided an apology and reparations for over 110,000 Japanese Americans interned during WWII.
- Urges the President of the United States to award the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Yasui and directs transmission of this resolution to the President.
Legislative Description
A resolution to endorse the nomination of Minoru Yasui for a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yasui, Minoru
Last Action
Adopted
12/17/2014
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