Tule Lake Pilgrimage 1978 [caption title]

[Tule Lake: June 3, 1978. Very good.. Small panoramic photographic, measuring 7 x 13.5 inches. Minor fading and toning. A panoramic group portrait of participants in the 1978 Tule Lake Pilgrimage, an early effort to commemorate the experiences of Japanese-Americans in the internment camps during World War II. The photo depicts well over 100 people sitting and standing in informal rows on a hill at the camp site in Northeastern California. The caption title at the lower edge of the image, "Tule Lake Pilgrimage, June 3, 1978," is given in both Japanese and English.

"Organized visits back to former World War II concentration camps sites that were started largely by Sansei in the late 1960s have evolved to include participation from all communities confronting civil rights violations. The first organized pilgrimages occurred in Southern and Northern California in 1969 with trips to Manzanar and Tule Lake, both of which included an inter-generational mix of Issei, Nisei, Sansei, and Yonsei.... The Tule Lake Committee organized pilgrimages in 1978, 1979 and 1980. However, pilgrimages during the 1980s became infrequent when pilgrimage organizers, largely made up of students, focused their energy on the redress movement." -- Densho Encyclopedia.