Join us for a film screening of the documentary, One Fighting Irishman, and a panel discussion on the unprecedented story of over 5,500 incarcerees who renounced their US citizenship at the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Filmmaker Sharon Yamato will moderate a panel consisting of prominent Tule Lake activists: Tule Lake Committee President Hiroshi Shimizu, Tule Lake survivor and Tule Lake Stockade Diary publisher Kyoko Oda, and The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration coeditor Frank Abe. It will explore the issues that led to segregation and resulting mass renunciations while facing opposition and interference from the US Department of Justice, national ACLU, and national JACL.
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.
This program is cosponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Aratani C.A.R.E Award.
This program is part of the 2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) Education Conference. Conference attendees do not need to register separately for this event.
To register for the full conference, please visit the event page.
Join us for a film screening of the documentary, One Fighting Irishman, and a panel discussion on the unprecedented story of over 5,500 incarcerees who renounced their US citizenship at the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Filmmaker Sharon Yamato will moderate a panel consisting of prominent Tule Lake activists: Tule Lake Committee President Hiroshi Shimizu, Tule Lake survivor and Tule Lake Stockade Diary publisher Kyoko Oda, and The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration coeditor Frank Abe. It will explore the issues that led to segregation and resulting mass renunciations while facing opposition and interference from the US Department of Justice, national ACLU, and national JACL.
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.
This program is cosponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Aratani C.A.R.E Award.
This program is part of the 2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) Education Conference. Conference attendees do not need to register separately for this event.
To register for the full conference, please visit the event page.