APIDA History in the U.S. and MN by Jouapag Lee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline Understanding the U.S. Empire through a Racial Justice Lens en-us 2021-03-24 15:27:30 UTC 2023-03-25 03:47:37 UTC hello@padlet.com 1607 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348569692 The Virginia Company founds Jamestown, the first permanently settled English colony in the United States.]]> 2021-03-24 15:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348569692 1761 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348593146 India becomes a colony of Great Britian.]]> 2021-03-24 15:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348593146 1787 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348610722 The U.S. Constitution is drafted. Although the “Founding Fathers” were careful not to use the word “slavery,” key provisions protected the institution: a clause delaying the banning of the slave trade, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Fugitive Slave Clause. The Three-Fifths Compromise called for counting three out of every five enslaved people as “a person” for the purpose of determining the number of seats a state would have in the U.S. House of Representatives. This effectively gave southern states one-third more seats in Congress and one-third more electoral votes than if enslaved people were not counted, granting slaveholder interests to largely dominate the government of the United States. The Fugitive Slave Clause required a “person held to service or labour” (usually a slave, apprentice, or indentured servant) who flees to another state to be returned to the owner in the state from which s/he escaped. The Constitution placed voting rights in the hands of the states, which generally limited voting to property-owning white males.]]> 2021-03-24 15:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348610722 1790 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348623338 The Naturalization Act reserves the right of naturalized citizenship to “free white persons.” The Act is widely used to exclude certain groups of Asian immigrants until the early 1950s.]]> 2021-03-24 15:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348623338 1807 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348631636 U.S. Congress banishes the importation of slaves; however, slave trade within the United States continues. In the 1820s, more than 150,000 slaves would be sold across state lines, a figure that would nearly double in the 1830s.]]> 2021-03-24 15:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348631636 1800 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348635167 By 1800, the number of Indigenous peoples in North America has been reduced from an estimated 15 million to about 1 million.]]> 2021-03-24 15:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348635167 1830 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348641374 Indian Removal Act forces the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes from the southeastern United States onto reservations in Oklahoma.]]> 2021-03-24 15:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348641374 1833 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348644863 Britain abolishes slavery throughout its empire, accelerating the global “coolie” trade. From 1834 to the end of the WWI, Britain would transport about 2 million Indian indentured workers to 19 colonies, including Fiji, Mauritius, Ceylon, Trinidad, Guyana, Malaysia, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa. Conditions on the ships were similar to those of slave ships.]]> 2021-03-24 15:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348644863 1838 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348648639 The first South Asian indentured laborers arrive in British Guiana, and the British recruit Indians, especially from the Punjab, to work in Africa and the Pacific and to serve in the British Army.]]> 2021-03-24 15:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348648639 1852 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348696589 First sizeable group of Chinese contract laborers arrive in Hawai'i to work on sugar plantations. In a year of serious crop failure in southern China—and at the height of the Gold Rush—20,026 Chinese enter San Francisco. California passes a Foreign Miner’s Tax, discriminating against Chinese and Mexican miners.]]> 2021-03-24 15:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348696589 1854 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348699538 People v. Hall. The California Supreme Court ruling that Chinese and other “Mongolians” cannot testify in court against Whites.]]> 2021-03-24 15:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1348699538 1862 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350253108 With the Coolie Act, the United States prohibits American participation in the “coolie” trade]]> 2021-03-24 21:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350253108 1865 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350254923 The Central Pacific Railroad begins hiring Chinese laborers.]]> 2021-03-24 21:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350254923 1869 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350257201 Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad accelerates westward expansion after the Civil War. It reduces travel time between America's east and west coasts from months to less than a week and provides a vital link for commerce while opening up vast regions of the heartland for settlement.]]> 2021-03-24 21:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350257201 1871 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350259462 The Chinese Massacre, a racially motivated riot.]]> 2021-03-24 21:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350259462 1875 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350261045 Page Law, the first federal immigration law, prevents immigrants considered “undesirable” from entering the United States, including Asian male contract laborers, Asian female prostitutes, and Asians who were convicts in their own country.]]> 2021-03-24 21:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350261045 1877 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350265072 Denis Kearney organizes an anti-Chinese movement in San Francisco and forms the Workingmen's Party of California, alleging Chinese workers took lower wages, poorer conditions, and longer hours than white workers were willing to tolerate.]]> 2021-03-24 21:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350265072 1878 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350266276 A U.S. circuit court rules in In re Ah Yup that Chinese are ineligible for naturalized citizenship.]]> 2021-03-24 21:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350266276 1882 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350267097 The Chinese Exclusion Act passes. The act is initially intended to last for 10 years but is renewed in 1892 and made permanent in 1902. It is the first law to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.]]> 2021-03-24 21:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350267097 1885 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350270492 Tape v. Hurley. The California Supreme Court rules in favor of the Chinese-American Tape family, suing the San Francisco School District for access to public schools. This leads to the opening of the city’s segregated Oriental School.]]> 2021-03-24 21:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350270492 1885 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350271573 Rock Springs Massacre, an Anti-Chinese riot in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where white coal miners, members of the Knights of Labor, beat two Chinese miners and walk off their jobs. That evening, the white miners, armed with rifles, riot and burn down the Chinese quarter. No Whites are prosecuted for the murder of 28 Chinese people and $150,000 in property damage.]]> 2021-03-24 21:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350271573 1886 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350273201 The U.S. Supreme Court finds in the case Yick Wo v. Hopkins that an ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors discriminates against Chinese laundry owners and violates their rights under the 14th Amendment. The seminal case rules that all people—citizens and non-citizens—have equal protection under the law.]]> 2021-03-24 21:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350273201 1890 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350274850 Sugar plantations in Hawaiʻi employ large numbers of Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos, who form a majority of the population by 1898.]]> 2021-03-24 21:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350274850 1898 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350279093 United States v. Wong Kim Ark. The U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision holding that children born in the United States, even to parents not eligible to become citizens, were nonetheless citizens themselves under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.]]> 2021-03-24 21:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350279093 1903 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350284906 In Oxnard, California, more than 1,200 Mexican and Japanese farm workers organize the first farm worker union, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA). It would become the first union to win a strike against the California agricultural industry, which had become a powerful force.]]> 2021-03-24 21:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350284906 1906 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350286825 The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League forms on the West Coast as an increasing number of Japanese and Koreans migrate from Hawai'i. San Francisco Board of Supervisors orders the segregation of all Chinese, Japanese, and Korean children into the city’s Oriental School, triggering a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan. A fire in San Francisco after an earthquake destroys city birth records, opening the way for more migration of Chinese “paper sons.”]]> 2021-03-24 21:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350286825 1907 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350287798 Pres. Theodore Roosevelt issues an executive order halting immigration from Hawai'i, Mexico, and Canada to the U.S. mainland, to reduce Japanese immigration.]]> 2021-03-24 21:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350287798 1910 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350289379 Angel Island immigration station opens in San Francisco Bay, mainly to enforce Chinese exclusion laws.]]> 2021-03-24 21:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350289379 1913 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350290536 Punjabi immigrants organize the Ghadar Party in the United States to support the liberation of their homeland from colonialism.]]> 2021-03-24 21:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350290536 1913 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350290788 California passes the Alien Land Act, banning “aliens not eligible for citizenship” from land ownership and long-term leasing. Japanese farmers are the main targets of the law.]]> 2021-03-24 21:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350290788 1917 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350293313 Among other provisions, the Immigration Act of 1917 bans immigration from the “Asiatic barred zone”—essentially all of Asia, except the Philippines.]]> 2021-03-24 21:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350293313 1921 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350295647 Armed white men deport 58 Japanese cantaloupe pickers from Turlock, California, by truck and warn them not to return. Similar events occur elsewhere in California and in parts of Oregon and Arizona.]]> 2021-03-24 21:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350295647 1922 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350296473 Ozawa v. United States. U.S. Supreme Court rules that Japanese immigrants, as non-Caucasians, are ineligible for naturalized citizenship.]]> 2021-03-24 21:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350296473 1922 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350296752 The Cable Act guarantees female citizenship only to women married to non-Asian foreigners.]]> 2021-03-24 21:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350296752 1923 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350298035 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. U.S. Supreme Court rules that Asian Indians, despite being able to claim Caucasian status, are not white and therefore ineligible for naturalized citizenship.]]> 2021-03-24 22:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350298035 1924 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350299126 The Johnson-Reed Act further restricts immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, severely restricts immigration of Africans, and outright bans immigration of Arabs and Asians. The U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian states that the purpose of the act was “to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity.”]]> 2021-03-24 22:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350299126 1928 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350299868 Filipino farm workers are driven out of Yakima Valley, Washington.]]> 2021-03-24 22:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350299868 1930 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350300891 The Japanese American Citizens League forms.]]> 2021-03-24 22:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350300891 1934 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350304094 The Tydings-McDuffie Act sets a timeline for Philippine independence, reclassifies Filipinos from nationals to aliens for immigration purposes, and sets an annual immigration quota from the Philippines at 50.]]> 2021-03-24 22:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350304094 1941 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350306769 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor on December 7, leading to the United States’s formal entry into World War II. Hours later, it invades the Philippines.]]> 2021-03-24 22:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350306769 1942 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350308143 On February 19, FDR signs Executive Order 9066, which authorizes the exclusion of persons from areas designated military zones on the West Coast and leads to the removal and mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.]]> 2021-03-24 22:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350308143 1943 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350309405 Yasui v. United States and Hirabayashi v. United States. U.S. Supreme Court upholds that the war's curfew and removal policies are constitutional. Incarcerated Japanese Americans are subject to a “loyalty questionnaire” that divides the population and leads to the segregation of “disloyal” Japanese at Tule Lake.]]> 2021-03-24 22:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350309405 1943 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350309622 Two years after China and the United States become allies in WWII, the Magnuson Act passes, allowing Chinese immigration for the first time and granting naturalization rights to some Chinese already in the United States. This marks the first time that any Asians are permitted to become naturalized citizens.]]> 2021-03-24 22:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350309622 1944 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350311324 Korematsu v. United States.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds internment and argues that it was motivated by military necessity, not racism.
]]> 2021-03-24 22:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350311324 1945 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350312524 The War Brides Act is passed, allowing for the entry of thousands of Asian women as the spouses of American soldiers. The First Indochina War begins, as France attempts to regain control of its former colony.]]> 2021-03-24 22:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350312524 1946 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350313812 The Luce-Celler Act lifts Filipino and Asian Indian exclusion by granting members of these groups naturalization rights and an annual immigration quota of 100. Filipino immigrant activist Carlos Bulosan publishes America is in the Heart. Philippine independence is established. Tule Lake, the last internment camp, closes.]]> 2021-03-24 22:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350313812 1948 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350315807 The U.S. government launches the Exchange Visitor Program (EVP) in order to draw international students and workers. Among its results is the high participation rate of Filipina nurses.]]> 2021-03-24 22:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350315807 1949 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350316463 U.S. breaks off diplomatic ties with newly formed People's Republic of China and grants refugee status to 5,000 highly educated Chinese in the U.S. after China institutes a Communist government.]]> 2021-03-24 22:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350316463 1952 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350318633 The McCarran-Walter Act lifts the ban on Korean and Japanese immigration and permits their naturalization rights.]]> 2021-03-24 22:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350318633 1953 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350319418 U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters.]]> 2021-03-24 22:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350319418 1954 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350320677 End of the first Indochina War leads to deepened U.S. involvement in Vietnam.]]> 2021-03-24 22:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350320677 1956 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350323124 Chinese Confession Program offers limited promise of legal status to undocumented Chinese who confess their status. However, many are not eligible for relief and were deported.]]> 2021-03-24 22:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350323124 1956 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350323333 Punjabi Sikh Dalip Singh Saund, of the 29th District in Los Angeles, is the first Asian American elected to Congress.]]> 2021-03-24 22:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350323333 1982 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350326517 May Chen, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, leads New York Chinatown strike of 1982, one of the largest Asian-American worker strikes, with about 20,000 garment factory workers marching the streets of Lower Manhattan demanding work contracts.]]> 2021-03-24 22:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350326517 1982 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350326740 Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz beat Chinese American Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat in Detroit, blaming “Japs” for the loss of Detroit auto industry jobs.]]> 2021-03-24 22:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350326740 1986 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350328282 Congress approves the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), providing legalization for certain undocumented workers, including agricultural workers. The Act also creates employer sanctions, making it illegal for employers to hire undocumented workers.]]> 2021-03-24 22:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350328282 1987 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350329072 HR 442. The Civil Liberties Act of 1987 is passed and becomes law the following year. Among its provisions is restitution to survivors of Japanese-American mass incarceration during WWII.]]> 2021-03-24 22:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350329072 1989 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350330393 President George H. W. Bush signs into law an entitlement program to pay each surviving Japanese-American internee $20,000.]]> 2021-03-24 22:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350330393 1994 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350334753 California voters pass Proposition 187, denying undocumented immigrants public services like education and healthcare.]]> 2021-03-24 22:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350334753 1996 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350335915 Congress passes the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA), and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), which deeply alter the legal landscape for immigrants and refugees. Among the sweeping changes, the laws create new forms of punishment like mandatory detention; vastly expand the definition of “aggravated felony” under immigration law, making people deportable for crimes that carry sentences of one year or more; apply new criminal deportation provisions retroactively; and eliminate judicial review in criminal deportation cases. Deportation and immigration detention skyrockets.]]> 2021-03-24 22:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350335915 2000 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350338123 In a dramatic reversal of past policy, the AFL-CIO calls for an immediate amnesty for undocumented immigrants and an end to employer sanctions.]]> 2021-03-24 22:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350338123 2000 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350338768 The U.S. prison population reaches 2 million. This total represents persons held in federal and state prisons, territorial prisons, local jails, immigration facilities, military prisons, jails on Indian reservations, and juvenile facilities.]]> 2021-03-24 22:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350338768 2001 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350339941 Congress passes the sweeping USA PATRIOT Act with very little debate, vastly expanding the powers of law enforcement and ushering in a new era of racial profiling, immigrant detentions, and deportations.]]> 2021-03-24 22:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350339941 2002 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350341058 The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) requires certain men and boys over 16 from 25 countries (all of which were predominantly Muslim countries from Asia and Africa, except North Korea) to report to immigration offices between November 2002 and April 2003 for fingerprinting, photographing, and interrogation or else face arrest, detention, or deportation. Registration would also often lead to arrest, detention, or deportation, mainly for minor immigration violations that would have been ignored otherwise. This creates a catch-22 and widespread uncertainty and fear. Although the U.S. government would declare the end of NSEERS in 2011, its effects continue, effectively making the religious, cultural, and political affiliations, and lawful activities of Muslims and those perceived to by Muslim the bases for justifying detention, deportation, and denial of immigration benefits.]]> 2021-03-24 22:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350341058 2002 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350341285 Cambodia signs a repatriation agreement with the United States, triggering a deportation crisis in Cambodian-American communities. As a result, hundreds of refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge would be deported to Cambodia.]]> 2021-03-24 22:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350341285 2010 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350345420 Arizona passes SB1070, requiring police to determine the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained when there is “reasonable suspicion” that they are undocumented. The law targets Latinos and leads to widespread racial profiling and copycat measures in several states.]]> 2021-03-24 22:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350345420 2011 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350346188 The Occupy Movement begins in New York City's Zuccotti Park, with other Occupy protests taking place in over 951 cities across 82 countries, and over 600 communities in the United States. Protests decry the effects of globalization and neoliberalism, particularly steepening inequality, with the slogan, “We are the 99%!”]]> 2021-03-24 22:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350346188 2012 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350346971 Oak Creek Massacre. 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, a white supremacist and U.S. Army veteran, fatally shoots six people and wounds four others at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, before shooting himself in the head.]]> 2021-03-24 22:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350346971 2012 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350347202 George Zimmerman fatally shoots Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black high school student. Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed-race Hispanic man, is the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily living and where the shooting took place.]]> 2021-03-24 22:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350347202 2013 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350348397 The Association of Asian American Studies becomes the first U.S. academic association to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. The resolution states: “Whereas the Association for Asian American Studies seeks to advance a critique of U.S. empire, opposing U.S. military occupation in the Arab world and U.S. support for occupation and racist practices by the Israeli state… Be it resolved that the Association for Asian American Studies endorses and will honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.”]]> 2021-03-24 22:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350348397 2014 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350351105 The Black Lives Matter movement, initiated by 3 black women organizers, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, takes hold, fueled by the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin, the killing of Eric Garner by NYPD officers, and the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.]]> 2021-03-24 22:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350351105 2016 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350353768 The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sues the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over plans to approve the Dakota Access Pipeline route under the Missouri River, alleging that the Corps failed to adequately consult tribe members before approval, and violated the National Historic Preservation Act by authorizing construction that would threaten culturally sacred sites. This kicks off a yearlong encampment of demonstrators known as Water Protectors at the Sacred Stone Camp on the Standing Rock Reservation, who suffer numerous violent clashes and severe injuries by the National Guard, the Morton County Sheriff, and private security guards hired by Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline company. Thousands of people, representing hundreds of tribes and First Nations, join the camp from all over the world to stand in solidarity. The camp would be forcibly evacuated in February 2017.]]> 2021-03-24 22:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350353768 2016 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350355442 Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States, winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote to democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of nearly 2.9 million. ]]> 2021-03-24 22:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350355442 2017 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350359509 In January President Trump issues Executive Order 13769, titled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, commonly known as the Muslim ban. It prohibits entry for 90 days by citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.]]> 2021-03-24 22:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1350359509 1619 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1357599463 The first shipload of enslaved Africans to go the British American colonies arrives in Jamestown, Virginia. The Dutch trading vessel carries 20 enslaved people, seized from a captured Spanish slave ship. By 1699, an estimated 33,200 enslaved Africans would be brought by force to the colonies.]]> 2021-03-26 15:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1357599463 1784 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1357599909 The first U.S. trading ship arrives in Calcutta, India. Voyage of the Empress of China commences U.S.–China trade.]]> 2021-03-26 15:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1357599909 1955 jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1357638813 Start of the Vietnam War]]> 2021-03-26 15:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1357638813 1984- My mom and grandma arrives in the United States as refugees following the Secret War. jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1369595016 2021-03-30 20:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1369595016 1950s the CIA recruits the Hmong to join the Secret War. jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1369599105 2021-03-30 20:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1369599105 2008 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376991711 My Karen friends move to America from a refugee camp from Myanmar and join my school, where I got learn more about the ethnicity, Karen.

]]> 2021-04-01 23:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376991711 1299 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376995958 The Ottoman Empire was founded]]> 2021-04-01 23:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376995958 1948 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376996208 US-Nepal diplomatic relation established


]]> 2021-04-01 23:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376996208 2013 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376997447 May 14 is recognized as Hmong American Day in Minnesota signed by Governor Mark Dayton. My first time celebrating this day was in 2018 with my school. ]]> 2021-04-01 23:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376997447 June 1, 2001 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376998366 Nepal: Nine members of the royal family, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, were killed in a mass shooting during a gathering of the royal family at the palace. ]]> 2021-04-01 23:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1376998366 1526 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377000108 The Mughul Empire was founded]]> 2021-04-01 23:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377000108 2001 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377001730 9/11 Terrorists Attack on US soil and US Invaded Afghanistan; War on Terror begins.]]> 2021-04-01 23:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377001730 May 28, 2008 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377002365 Nepal becomes a republic, after the civil war.]]> 2021-04-01 23:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377002365 2017 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377003754 The US agrees to invest $500 million through the Millennium Challenge Corporation  (MCC)
 to build infrastructure in Nepal

]]> 2021-04-01 23:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377003754 2003 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377005858 US Invades Iraq]]> 2021-04-01 23:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377005858 1975 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377005910 The year the first Hmong family settled in Minnesota.

The North Vietnamese and Laos eventually emerged victorious in 1975, as part of the general communist victory in all of former French Indochina that year. A total of up to 300,000 people from Laos fled to neighboring Thailand following Laos takeover.

]]> 2021-04-01 23:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377005910 2002 Senator Mee Moua is first Hmong person to be elected to office. jopalee https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377007316 2021-04-01 23:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377007316 1965 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377007679 The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional Northern European groups,]]> 2021-04-01 23:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377007679 2015 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377008821 After a devastating earthquake, the US designates Temporary Protective Status to Nepal, allowing Nepalese in the United States to live and work legally in the US until Nepal could recover economically to sustain its citizens returning home

]]> 2021-04-01 23:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377008821 June 2006 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377009887 In a historical vote for the election of the constituent assembly, the Nepalese parliament voted to abolish the monarchy in June 2006. Nepal became a federal republic on 28 May 2008 and was formally renamed the 'Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal' ending the 200-year-old reign of the Shah monarchs.]]> 2021-04-01 23:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377009887 2017 https://padlet.com/jopalee/AAOP_APIDAtimeline/wish/1377013506 Donald Trump ends TPS designation to Nepal and several other countries



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