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The Story of Tokuji Yamashita

The following are links to articles about the life of Tokuji Yamashita, an immigrant from Japan who arrived in America in 1893 when he was eighteen years old. Yamashita was an early Civil Rights activist, who deeply believed in the principle of "equality" in the U.S. Constitution. However, he was barred from practicing law, eventhough he graduated from a law school in the U.S. and passed the bar exam, because he was "a member of the yellow race."

Yamashita's Life: A Timeline
The Story of Takuji Yamashita

Tuan Tran