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Description
Provides minutes of meeting requested by stockade incarcerees, listing the incarcerees, Co-ordinating Committee members, and others in attendance and presenting paraphrased text, identifying speakers by name. Topics addressed include incarcerees' difficulties in talking honestly; their understanding of conditions in the camp outside of the stockade; the work of the Co-ordinating Committee and of the Negotiating Committee; previous meetings; psychological impacts of long-time incarceration; and pleas for release of some individuals considered unfairly imprisoned in the stockade. This document is the same as the other one sharing its title (sjs_sch_0068), except for the handwritten text "Mr. Mahart" at the top of the first page. The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent history. In 1943, the camp was turned into a segregation center to house "disloyal" Japanese Americans relocated from other camps based on their answers to a confusing loyalty questionnaire. The camp endured martial law from November 1943- Jan 1944 after escalating protests and unrest. The hostile environment of the camp lead to many incarcerees renouncing their American citizenship upon the end of incarceration, a process which took 14 years to reverse if they did not wish to be deported to Japan.
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence World War II--Resistance and dissidence Geographic communities--California
Place
Newell, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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