Preservation of the Tule Lake Relocation and Segregation Center Collection
Scope and Contents note
The collection includes documents, newspaper clippings and ephemera related to the Tulelake Pilgrimages, National Historic Landmark designation documents for the site, speech drafts, curriculum materials, and other items.
Dates
- 1976-2009
Creator
- Shaw Historical Library (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use note
Before materials from the Shaw Historical Library may be quoted in print or otherwise reproduced in whole or in part in any publication, exhibit, broadcast or other manner, the user must obtain permission from the owner of the physical property and the holder of the copyright. Copyright status for collections in the Shaw Historical Library varies. Reproduction of any item must contain a complete citation to the original. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
The Tule Lake Relocation and Segregation Center operated between 1942 and 1946 as one of ten federal installations for internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during World War II. At its peak, more than 18,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had been labeled "disloyal" were detained there. Portions of the site later became private property or state property or remained under federal government control. The Tule Lake Committee and others conducted efforts to preserve the site for many years. The Pilgrimages started in 1974 and continue to the present day. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. In December 2008 the Tule Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument was created by Presidential proclamation.
Extent
3 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection consists of materials collected by the Shaw Historical Library on the activities of the Tule Lake Committee and others to preserve the site of the Tule Lake Relocation and Segregation Center in northern California, the Tule Lake Pilgrimages, the site’s national historic landmark designation and the establishment of the Tule Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific Monument.
Location note
Shaw Historical Library
Creator
- Shaw Historical Library (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Preservation of the Tule Lake Relocation and Segregation Center Collection 1976-2009
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Anne Hiller Clark
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Institute of Technology Libraries, Shaw Historical Library Repository