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Charles Collins

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Labor Organizing Communism
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Biography

Charles Collins, once head of the New York Hotel Trades Union, was among the foreign-born Americans facing denaturalization in 1958 on charges of having concealed Communist Party membership in their citizenship applications — proceedings stalled by the Supreme Court's Nowak and Maisenberg rulings.

Case

Charges: Walter-McCarran Act denaturalization
Sentence: Facing loss of citizenship Charges as recorded: Walter-McCarran Act denaturalization — alleged undisclosed Communist Party membership
Convicted: Facing denaturalization proceedings