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.

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.