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doc "Visit to Cheyenne Jail with Japanese American Draft Delinquents" (ddr-densho-122-866)

Report from Min Yasui and Joe Grant Masaoka Re: jailed draft resisters from Heart Mountain

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-866/

img Issei mother and sons on the street (ddr-densho-259-186)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui], Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui], and Min[oru Yasui] in a baby buggy, standing across the street from the First National Bank in Hood River. They are standing on the SW corner of 3rd and Oak Streets."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-186/

img Nisei boys at the beach (ddr-densho-259-127)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[This is] the Columbia River beach at the [Yasui family's] Mosier farm, and Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] & Min[oru Yasui], and the 2 Kanemasu brothers, Kazuo and Wataru, are playing around in the water in their underwear."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-127/

img Four Nisei children on tricycles and wagons (ddr-densho-259-188)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Four little kids on various vehicles on a sloping sidewalk. From left to right, Roku [Yasui], Michi [Yasui], Rin Karasawa & Min[oru Yasui]. This was taken at the Karasawa home, which doubled as their laundry on Oak Street."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-188/

img Yasui family at the Min Yasui Event at the Japanese American National Museum (ddr-densho-259-629)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-629/

img Nikkei family in a park (ddr-densho-259-406)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Part of the Yasui family sitting in what appears to be a park [Left to right]: Shidzuyo, holding a baby, probably me; Ches, Min[oru], & Masuo, holding a young child, most probably Shu."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-406/

doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 41, No. 2, February 2004 (ddr-sjacl-1-560)

Selected article titles: "Min Yasui Oratorical Contest" (p. 1), "JACL Rubber Stamping and Paper Arts Workshop" (p. 1), "Civil Rights Committee in 2004" (p. 1, 3).

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img Men and children with hiking sticks (ddr-densho-259-41)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Toyoji Abe, Daiichi Takeoka, [Masuo Yasui], Kay, Ches and Min holding hiking sticks and posing on a very rocky field, Mt. Hood in the background it looks like the area around the old Cloud Cap Inn."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-41/

doc "Japanese Nisei" (ddr-densho-419-1)

A poem written by Min Yasui. The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-419-1/

doc "Why Are We Here?" (ddr-densho-419-4)

A poem written by Min Yasui. The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-419-4/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 2 (July 15, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-28)

Selected article titles: "Nominate Dr. Sakada, Min Yasui as Candidates for President of National JACL Organization" (p. 1), "Senate Cuts Evacuation Claims Appropriation to $1,300,000, Boosts Administrative Budget" (p. 1).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-22-28/

img Five Nisei siblings (ddr-densho-259-468)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], Yuki and Michi [Yasui] at the Third Street home. There aren't many pictures of Yuki, since she died in 1922, just two months short of her fourth birthday. I think that she died of pneumonia, or maybe it was influenza."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-468/

doc "That Damned Fence" (ddr-densho-419-3)

A poem written by Min Yasui while he was incarcerated in Minidoka concentration camp. The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-419-3/

doc Japanese Evacuees (ddr-densho-462-8)

Notes for sermon 'The Christian Church behind barbed wire'. Notes reference Min Yasui's poem, testimony by Martha Higashita

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-462-8/

img Group photograph of Japanese American women and children (ddr-densho-259-34)

Group photograph of Japanese American women and children, including Shidzuyo, Min, and Ches Yasui. Date and location unknown, though it may be a photograph from a gathering of Nikkei living in Hood River, Oregon.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-34/

Collection Coram Nobis Litigation Collection (ddr-densho-405)

The Coram Nobis Litigation Collection contains documents related to the reconsideration of three cases of Japanese Americans who challenged the exclusion orders or curfew that reached the Supreme Court in the 1940s: Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Min Yasui.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-405/

doc "The Soliloquy of an African Ant-Eater" (ddr-densho-419-2)

A poem Min Yasui wrote under the pseudonym, "The Mad Mongolian" while he was in Multnomah County Jail. The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-419-2/

img Nisei children rabbit hunting (ddr-densho-259-204)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], Michi and Roku [Yasui] have gone rabbit hunting. It shows Kay cradling a rifle in his left arm and holding a dead rabbit in his right hand. Ches has his .22 caliber rifle held high aloft in his right hand, and a dead rabbit in his left."

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img Four Nisei brothers with bozu haircuts (ddr-densho-259-83)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "It looks like Kay, Ches and Min [Yasui]--and Roku in front, sitting on the ground--just had had bozu haircuts. A 'bozu' is the familiar term for Bonsan, a Japanese Buddhist priest, who...always had a shaven or closely cropped head. For many years, Dad [Masuo Yasui] used to cut his boys' hair. He …

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img Issei man and children at train station (ddr-densho-259-195)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru], Michi, Roku, Shu, Homer & Yuka standing with Chan [Renichi Fujimoto] at the Hood River train depot. This was probably taken in the winter of 1929, when Chan went back to Japan to bring Obasan [Matsuyo Fujimoto] home to Hood River."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-195/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2027 (January 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-3)

Selected article titles: "I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin Urging Kenzo Label Change" (p. 1), "Yankee Samurai: Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory" (pp. 1, 9-12), "Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy Saw Evacuation as 'Cruel Joke'" (p. 2), and "Min Yasui Letters: From the Multnomah Jail" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-51-3/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 14 [11] (September 15, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-38)

Selected article titles: "Rep. Matsunaga fights plan for civil service racial survey" (p. 1); Seattle Bon Odori attendance tempered by neighborhood unrest" (p. 1), "Min Yasui appointed director of community relations group" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans hold superficial show of education in higher esteem" (p. 1), "Seattle Japanese leader plays major role in Alaska, sees many …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-39-38/

doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2131, Vol. 92, No. 12 (March 27, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-12)

Selected article titles: "Nikkei senior housing still developing" (p. 1), "Min Yasui named to JACL redress chair" (p. 1), "San Jose hires Nisei to tout tourist spots" (p. 2), "Whittier College conference on WW2 camp life set Apr. 3-4" (p. 3), "Super Weakness of the Super Minority" (p. 4), "A case against WW2 evacuation" (p. 5), …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 1 (July 5, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-27)

Selected article titles: "JACL Plays Important Role in Obtaining Passage of Issei Citizenship Legislation" (p 1), "Wartime Friend of Nisei Asks Japanese Americans to Work For All Victims of Prejudice" (p. 2), "Min Yasui Named Winner of JACL 'Nisei of Biennium' Award at Convention Banquet" (p. 3), "Honor 28 Bay Area Citizens Who Fought for Rights …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-27/

doc Coram Nobis Exhibit A (ddr-densho-405-3)

Memo from Edward J. Ennis to Charles Fahy regarding United States v. Hirabayashi, Yasui, and Korematsu. This document was Exhibit A in the coram nobis litigation. This document was available in conjunction with "Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment" by Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Carol Izumi, Jerry Kang, and Frank Wu.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-405-3/

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