A lawyer and civil rights advocate from Hood River, Oregon, Minoru Yasui challenged the incarceration and discrimination faced by Japanese Americans during World War II. After Executive Order 9066 imposed curfews on people of Japanese ancestry, he deliberately violated the order in Portland to test its constitutionality. Convicted after taking his case to the Supreme Court, he spent nine months in solitary confinement before being sent to the Minidoka concentration camp. His conviction was overturned in 1986, and in 2015 he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.