The Sutter County Museum, in conjunction with Marysville Chapter JACL, will host a special Day of Remembrance program on Saturday, February 21, 2026, offering the public a rare opportunity to hear firsthand stories and expert insights about one of the most complex chapters of Japanese American history. Titled “Tule Lake: An Inside Look,” the event will run from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Etti Hall, located at 1333 Butte House Road, Yuba City.
The program brings together a distinguished panel of speakers whose work and lived experiences illuminate the legacy of the Tule Lake Segregation Center—one of the most controversial sites within the World War II incarceration system.
Featured speakers include:
Jim Tanimoto, Last survivor of the Block 42 Resisters.
Wayne Collins, representing the legacy of his father civil rights attorney Wayne M. Collins, known for defending the rights of Japanese Americans labeled “disloyal.”
Jan Morrill, award-winning author of The Red Kimono will talk of her mother’s experience at Tule Lake.
Helen Hannan Parra, author of Two Days and One Suitcase will read excerpts of a first-hand account, written March 20, 1946, giving us a never before made public look, at the last day of Tule Lake.
Judge Johnny Cepeda Gogo and his 48-Star Flag Project.
Yukio Kawaratani, via video recorded especially for this DOR, will tell how his father and two brothers were sent to DOJ detention centers in North Dakota and Texas while he was left with his mother and three sisters in Tule Lake and three of his brothers were serving in the Army.
The program will be hosted by David Kiyoshi Tom, creator of Kintsukuroi and Closed Mondays, whose work explores memory, identity, and the Japanese American experience.