By Melissa Benton |Staff Writer| Cherstin Lyon, CSUSB assistant history professor, published a historical book about the Japanese American draft resistors during World War II. “Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory” follows the story of 41 Nisei who were imprisoned after refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military during World War II. Lyon tells how the struggles of these Japanese Americans in resisting the draft and the legal battles that followed which could be compared to civil rights hero, Gordon Hirabayashi. Lyon is giving a lecture on Gordon Hirabayashi on Feb. 22 in John M. Pfau Library from 12-1 p.m. in … [Read more...] about CSUSB professor explores the heroism of Hirabayashi during WWII