Film about WWII Japanese internees to screen at St. Francis College
St. Francis College on Thursday, Oct. 19, will host a screening and discussion of “Resistance at Tule Lake,” a film about resistance and non-cooperation among Japanese-Americans who were forced into internment camps during World War II.
During the war, the U.S. government forced Japanese-Americans, most of them from California, into internment camps. The government claimed in couldn’t rely on their loyalty in the event of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast.
Some of the internees resisted, mainly by refusing to answer questions on questionnaires that were meant to segregate “loyal” from “disloyal” Japanese. These people, also known as the “No-Nos,” were segregated into a special camp at Tule Lake, California.
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