Wayne M. Collins (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wayne M. Collins (1900-July 16, 1974) was a civil rights attorney who worked on cases related to the Japanese American evacuation and internment.Collins was born in Sacramento, California and was raised and educated in San Francisco.Politically liberal, he became a leader in the legal fight against persecution of Japanese Americans, during and after World War II, even enlisting a number of conservative colleagues (such as attorney Ted Tomba) to work with him.With Ernest Besig of the Northern California ACLU, Collins led Fred Korematsu's constitutional challenge to the Internment beginning in 1942, and culminating before the U.S. Supreme Court (Korematsu v. United States) in 1944.