Bruce Yamashita
Encyclopedia
Bruce I. Yamashita is a Japanese American
lawyer and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. 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.
Japanese American
are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity...
lawyer and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. His successful legal case against institutional racial discrimination at the Officer Candidate School
Officer Candidate School (U.S. Marine Corps)
The United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School is the entry-level training for Marine officers, equivalent to recruit training for enlisted Marines. Located at Marine Corps Base Quantico, the school trains, screens, and evaluates potential Marine Corps officers...
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
- A Most Unlikely Hero website