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Rebel lawyer : Wayne Collins and the defense of Japanese American rights / Charles Wollenberg.
Van Pelt Library KF373.C635 W65 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wollenberg, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Japanese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Japanese Americans.
- United States.
- Japanese Americans--Civil rights.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Collins, Wayne (Wayne Mortimer), 1899-.
- Collins, Wayne.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 138 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2018]
- Summary:
- Wayne Collins made a somewhat unlikely hero for Fred Korematsu, Iva Toguri (alias Tokyo Rose), Japanese Peruvians, and five thousand Americans who renounced their citizenship under duress. An Irish American lawyer with a volatile temper, Collins's passionate commitment to the nation's constitutional principles put him in opposition to not only the United States government but also groups that acquiesced to internment, such as the national office of the ACLU and the leadership of the Japanese American Citizens League. Rebel Lawyer tells the story of the key cases pertaining to the World War II incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry and the trial attorney who defended them. Through careful research, Charles Wollenberg takes readers through each case, and offers readers an understanding of how Collins came to be the most effective defender of the rights and liberties of the West Coast's Japanese and Japanese American population. Wollenberg portrays Collins not as a white knight but as a tough, sometimes difficult man whose battles gave people of Japanese descent the foundation on which to construct their own powerful campaigns for redress. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 9066 1
- Chapter 2 Rebel 9
- Chapter 3 Korematsu 23
- Chapter 4 Tule Lake 41
- Chapter 5 Renunciants 53
- Chapter 6 Citizens 71
- Chapter 7 "Tokyo Rose" 87
- Chapter 8 Passing 105
- Chapter 9 Victories 111
- Chapter 10 Precedent 123.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wollenberg, Charles. Rebel lawyer.
- ISBN:
- 9781597144360
- 1597144363
- OCLC:
- 1006469581
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