Stop the Fence at Tule Lake

Proposed airport fence threatens historic site of Japanese American resistance.



The Tule Lake Segregation Center is recognized as the World War II concentration camp where thousands who protested the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans were punished for speaking out. The maximum security camp housed the largest number of detainees (housing over 18,000 prisoners at its peak), stayed opened the longest and was the place where "troublemakers" from other camps were sent.

Now considered the crucible for Japanese American resistance to incarceration during World War II, the infamous site is today preserved as a monument to one of our nation's darkest chapters. In 2006, Tule Lake was officially designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark, the highest level of recognition for a historically significant property. In 2008, the site was dedicated as a National Monument.

But now the physical and historical integrity of Tule Lake, located in Modoc County, California, is threatened by the potential construction of a massive fence, and community members are asking for your support.

Stop the fence at Tule Lake

The Tule Lake Segregation Center in California is the controversial former site where thousands of men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II. Now designated a National Monument, it is now a historic site dedicated to preserving the stories and experiences of those who were unjustly detained at Tule Lake and other concentration camps.

The site is now being threatened by the potential construction of an eight-foot high, three-mile long fence surrounding the Tulelake Municipal Airport that would run through the center of the former segregation center.

Opponents say the fence would destroy the physical and historical integrity of the site. The Tule Lake Committee has launched a petition campaign calling on folks to speak out against the Federal Aviation Administration's proposal to build the fence that would close off the Tule Lake site: Stop the Proposed Fence at the Tulelake Municipal Airport, site of the former Tule Lake Segregation Center, California.