Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long-suppressed story of incarcerated Japanese Americans who defied the government by refusing to swear unconditional loyalty to the U.S. Though this was an act of protest and family survival, they were branded as “disloyals” by the government and packed into the newly designated Tule Lake Segregation Center.

“Resistance at Tule Lake is a potent piece of history at a time when the United States is once again feeling less than hospitable.”

Mike HallThe New York Times
Filmmaker and UMD students News
November 1, 2019

University Screening Unveils New Tule Lake Research

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Meeting of Block Managers at the Tule Lake concentration camp News
September 3, 2019

JACL apologizes to Tule Lake resisters

For more than seven decades, a rift has persisted among Japanese Americans, between Tule Lake…
Iwao Shimizu News
January 2, 2019

James Yaegashi Plays Internment Resister

Iwao Shimizu: community leader, dad, Tule Lake stockade prisoner Iwao Shimizu belonged to a group…

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