Q&A-One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center

On October 28, 2023, filmmaker Sharon Yamato premiered her new film, “One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center,” narrated by George Takei, at JANM. A conversation with George Takei, Sharon Yamato, and Wayne Merrill Collins, attorney and son of Wayne M. Collins, moderated by Brian Niiya, content director at Densho, followed the screening.
Yamato’s documentary, “One Fighting Irishman,” tells the story of attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.
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Thanks for this! Horrifying that this occurred within living people's lifetime. Humans are so awesome EXCEPT when we suuuuck.