Located in California just below the Oregon border, Tule Lake began as one of ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps that held Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast. But following the WRA’s ill-conceived “loyalty questionnaire” of 1943, it became the notorious “segregation center” for inmates who refused to give unqualified “yes” responses and were unjustly labeled as “disloyal.”| Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
In 1943, the US government administered a disastrous "loyalty questionnaire" to Japanese Americans being held in WWII concentration camps.| Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment