Images and Imaginings of Internment: Comics and Illustrations of Camp

Answer "No" to both questions


You answer No to question #27 and #28 on the loyalty questionnaire and are therefore determined to be "disloyal" to the United States government. You and others who became known as the "No No's" because of this questionnaire are sent to Tule Lake, an incarceration camp with a "Segregation Center," a prison camp specially designed to hold "disloyal" Japanese Americans. 

Security at the Tule Lake site was increased when it became a segregation center. More barbed wire was added and an eight-foot high double "man-proof" fence was constructed to secure the maximum-security segregation center. The six guard towers surrounding the site were increased to twenty-eight, and a battalion of 1,000 military police with armored cars and tanks were brought in to maintain security. Working and living conditions were even worse than your previous camp, and violence was used more often to keep workers in line. 

Soon after you arrive, Tule Lake became more like an armed camp with  a prisoner curfew, barrack-to-barrack searches, and a near complete cessation of normal daily activities. Martial law was declared on November 14, leading to months of repression and hardship.

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