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In 1942 Civilian Exclusion Orders were issued to the citizens of the Japanese descent in Presidio of San Francisco, California. Collection contains Civilian Exclusion Order No. 95, printed as a poster broadsheet in May 23, 1942.

Internal documentation covering 1942-1953 from the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Camp at Tule Lake, California. Collection consists of 30 microfilm reels (35 mm.) with documents such as letters, memos, conversation transcripts, papers, reports, etc.

In 1942, shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 with the intention of preventing espionage. The result was forced relocation and incarceration of 110,000 to 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the western part of the country. Collection consists of a black and white photograph on the subject of the Japanese WWII Relocation.

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.

The Tule Lake Relocation Center was the largest and most controversial of the Japanese-American internment camps established during World War II. Collection contains Master of Arts dissertation written in 2008 by Michael David Schmidli on the subject of agricultural activities in the Tule Lake Relocation Center.

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. Tri-State High School operated on the territory of the Center. Collection contains an unbound collection of memoirs, written by the members of the class of 1945 of that school.

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. Collection consists of a copy of a map of the Camp, drawn March 16, 1945. The map shows both the original structures and what was left as of April 14, 2001.