Japanese-American internment was the forced removal and internment of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans (62% of whom were United States citizens) from the West Coast of the United States during World War II.

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• Japanese-American internment was the forced
  removal and internment of approximately 120,000
  Japanese and Japanese Americans (62 of whom were
  United States citizens) from the West Coast of
  the United States during World War II.

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• While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate
  to other parts of the country of their own
  choosing, the remainder roughly 110,000 men,
  women and children were sent to hastily
  constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers"
  in remote portions of the nation's interior.

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• Tule Lake, in northern California, was one of the
  most infamous of the internment camps. Prisoners
  there held frequent demonstrations and strikes,
  demanding their rights under the U.S.
  Constitution. As a result, it was made a
  "segregation camp," and internees from other
  camps who had refused to take the loyalty oath or
  had caused disturbances were sent to Tule Lake.
  At its peak, Tule Lake held 18,789 internees.
  Tule Lake was also one of the last camps to be
  closed, staying open until March 20, 1946.

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• As you study the following photographs taken from
  inside the camp at Lake Tule, try to consider the
  numerous ways in which relocation and internment
  effected the lives of Japanese-Americans.

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Arrival/Departure
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Arrival at Tule
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People Unloaded from Truck
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Document Checking
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Mr. Takaji Being Photographed
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Perimeter Warning
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U.S. Troops Assigned to Lake Tule
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Boy Scouts Parade
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Baseball League Play
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Office Workers
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Farm Packing and Processing
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Typists
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Harvest Workers
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Kindergarten
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Elementary School
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Junior-High School
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Tar-Paper High School
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Main Street U.S.A.
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Camp Perimeter Fence
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All photographs courtesy of the Marriott Library
collection at the University of Utah