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Measurements:
overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm
Object Name:
report
Place made:
United States: District of Columbia
Date made:
November 13, 1943
Description:
This radio report was issued by Dillon S. Myer, the director of the War Relocation Authority, and contains information about the Tule Lake Concentration Camp and its use as a segregation camp for "disloyal" or "hostile" Japanese Americans. The report vaguely describes what has come to be known as the Loyalty Questionnaire, in which all Japanese Americans were asked to fill out a form that would prove their loyalty or lack thereof. There were two crucial questions that involved participation in war efforts, and disbanding any loyalty to Japan and its Emperor, if a prisoner answered "no" to any of these questions, they were deemed disloyal and sent to Tule Lake. The report also details an account of a protest from the incarcerated at Tule Lake, as well as the building of the site.
Location:
Currently not on view
Credit Line:
Gift of Janice Faden
ID Number:
2016.3050.07
Nonaccession number:
2016.3050
Catalog number:
2016.3050.07
See more items in:
Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
Executive Order 9066
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-9707-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1807738