Bruce Yamashita
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Bruce I. Yamashita is a Japanese American lawyer and a reserve officer in the United States Marine Corps. His successful legal case against institutional racial discrimination at the Officer Candidate School of the Marine Corps became the subject of a 2003 documentary entitled A Most Unlikely Hero, as well as an autobiography entitled Fighting Tradition: A Marine's Journey to Justice.
[edit] External links
- Chin, Steven A. (April 4, 1993), “A Matter of Honor: The Bruce Yamashita Story”, San Francisco Examiner, <http://modelminority.com/article273.html>
- A Most Unlikely Hero website
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