March 28, 1942
Minoru Yasui, a U.S. born lawyer, walked into a Portland, Oregon police station at 11:20 pm, presenting himself for arrest to test the constitutionality of WWII-era curfew orders targeted at Japanese-Americans. His case, along with those of fellow dissenters Gordon Hirabayashi & Fred Korematsu, reached the US Supreme Court, where the orders were upheld. Yasui was sentenced to one year in prison and given a $5,000 fine; he spent the remainder of the war years in an internment camp. In 1986, his criminal conviction was overturned by the federal court.
