Bruce Yamashita

Bruce Yamashita

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".

External links

*citation | last = Chin | first = Steven A. | title = A Matter of Honor: The Bruce Yamashita Story | newspaper=San Francisco Examiner | year=1993 |date = April 4, 1993 | url=http://modelminority.com/article273.html
* [http://www.unlikelyhero.org "A Most Unlikely Hero"] website


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