TULE LAKE SEGREGATION CENTER
Incarceration Site — Newell, California
Status: Historic site · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/tule-lake-segregation-center-newell-california/

Preserved portions of the largest WRA incarceration camp.

An incarceration site in Newell, California, opened in 1942, Tule Lake Segregation Center is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Preserved portions of the largest WRA incarceration camp. The archive files it under dark history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

Tule Lake Segregation Center is the camp inside the camp — the maximum-security facility the government created in 1943 to hold the 'disloyal,' defined by a loyalty questionnaire whose two questions asked the impossible. Question 27 asked draft-age men if they'd serve in combat; Question 28 asked everyone to swear unqualified allegiance and 'foreswear' the Japanese emperor — for the Issei, who were barred from citizenship, a demand to become nationless. At Tule Lake, forty-two percent refused or answered no.
The segregation made it the hardest camp in the system. Eighteen thousand people crowded in; 'loyal' Tuleans were supposed to leave and four thousand refused to move again; the November 1943 protests brought martial law, tanks at the gate, and a stockade that held men for months without charges. Tule Lake was the last camp to close, in March 1946, and it produced the renunciants — the five thousand Nisei who, under the pressure of the camp, gave up their American citizenship, a decision most fought for decades to undo.
The file keeps the Segregation Center: the questionnaire, the no-no boys, the stockade, and the camp where the government's own process manufactured the disloyalty it claimed to contain.
Tule Lake is the archive's segregation file — the loyalty test, the stockade, and the citizenship the camp pressured people to renounce.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Tule Lake Segregation Center is the archive's segregation file — the questionnaire, the martial law, and the renunciants the camp produced.
A camp built for 'disloyals' keeps its stockade — the file's suggestion being that Tule Lake's hold is the mechanism: the form that made the answer impossible, and the camp that punished the answer it forced.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Operated May 27, 1942–March 20, 1946. The original jail, stockade and maintenance areas remain within the historic site. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Tule Lake' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Tule Lake — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/places/crtulelake.htm

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