Introduction
On the night of March 28th, 1942, the young Japanese-American Lawyer Minoru Yasui walked into a Police Station in downtown Portland and demanded to be arrested. He brought proof of his Japanese Ancestry, and reminded law enforcement of Public Proclamation No. 3; issued just four days earlier by Lt. General J. L. DeWitt, the order had imposed strict travel restrictions and a curfew upon all alien German, Italian and Japanese, and all those of Japanese ancestry.