PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-31

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Documentary film on the life of Minoru Yasui (1916–86) made by his daughter, Holly Yasui.

Never Give Up! covers Yasui's life in a straightforward chronological fashion beginning with his early life in Hood River, Oregon, law school and involvement with the Japanese American Citizens League , his and his family's wartime incarceration, his legal challenge of the curfew orders aimed at Japanese Americans and his subsequent imprisonment, his postwar legal practice and human relations work in Denver, Colorado, his involvement in the Redress Movement , his coram nobis case , and his posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. Much of the story is told in Yasui's own words, excerpted from archival interviews and speeches. The filmmakers also interview two of his siblings, Yuka Yasui Fujikura and Homer Yasui, along with friends and colleagues from Denver.

See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice.

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-31.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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