Wayne Merrill Collins, scholar, educator and lawyer provides an historical context for the events leading up to the formation of the Tule Lake Segregation Center, imprisoning 12,000 Japanese American dissidents in a maximum security facility. The heroic efforts of his father Wayne Mortimer Collins, along with Ernest Besig of the Northern California ACLU were instrumental in closing the Stockade. He devoted more than 20 years of litigation to help more than 5,700 renunciants individually try their cases and regain their American citizenship. The National ACLU, the JACL and the WRA are discussed regarding their joint efforts to intimidate those who dared to protest and defy the injustice they saw.
