Asian American Experience Timeline - Spring 25 by Charan Morris

Blasian March- Taylor Vielot

2025-03-07 19:03:18 UTC

Date: October 11, 2020

Zhou Lee, is an "a queer and non-binary Black Asian author, dancer, and organizer"(mahalayasf.org). They had experienced anti- Blackness by people within the Chinese and Filipino communities, so after these experiences they came up with the idea to start a march names the Blasian March to unite Black and Asian people. They felt as if their experiences could help others that have been through hate crimes. The first March took place in New York City on October 11th, and has currently expanded to Sacramento California where people of Black and Asian decent are connecting and others are understanding their history.

Source: (mahalayasf.org), (diaryofafirebird.com)

Jerry Housel, Ted Haas, and James Hendrick Terry - helped Japanese Americans

2025-03-07 19:04:45 UTC

During 1994 and 1998, A guy name Eric Muller has been the first to be exposed by the Japanese imprisonment camps, though he managed to show the other students that he taught in the university about how this affected the other kids in his class as well making them know a secret from their own history that they weren't even taught. With his own book along with James,Ted, and Jerry it helped him create a project to help people from an unjust system that are mostly run not by moral monsters but by ordinary people like us, people with plausible, self-comforting stories to tell about tempering evil, he understands what the problem is and he is doing his best to show those about those problems that need to be solved.

Transcontinental Railroad Chinese workers

2025-03-07 19:06:54 UTC

it gives a brief summary of the transcontinental railroad built by the help of the Chinese migrants From 1863 to 1869, Central Pacific hired roughly 15,000 Chinese laborers enduring long journeys across the ocean from China to California to complete the Summit Tunnel at Donner Pass.

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

2025-03-07 19:09:11 UTC

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiyamitosis, born 1988 in Atlanta by thai and Indonesian immigrants. Amanda Phingbodhipakkiyaismitosismitochodria is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist who specializes in large scale art works. Her art works have been featured in various museums such as the Brooklyn museum, Lincoln center, as well as many rallies/protests across the world. Amanda Phingbodhipakkiyaismitosismitochodriawochestershiresauce's artwork covers important social issues, which is the reason why her artwork is often used in rallies/protests. Amanda Phingbodhipakkiyaismitosismitochodriawochestershiresaucesupercalifragilisticexpialidociouspneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis's story is important to us because it shows how artwork can be used for important issues. and we could learn from Amanda PhingbodhipakkiyaismitosismitochodriawochestershiresaucesupercalifragilisticexpialidociouspneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisHippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaAequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolicmethionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl's story

my sources for Amanda PhingbodhipakkiyaismitosismitochodriawochestershiresaucesupercalifragilisticexpialidociouspneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisHippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaAequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolicmethionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanylQuinquagintaquadringentilliardlopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano's story are her own website: alonglastname.com. a video that could help can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viz57nydqr8

The Free Chol Soo Lee Movement- Brielle

2025-03-07 19:10:08 UTC

The free Chol Soo Lee movement was about a Korean immigrant man named Chol Soo Lee who was sentenced to life in prison in 1973 for a San Francisco murder and while fighting the case he killed one of his inmates because of self defense. Chol Soo Lee was never found guilty for the killing so they released him in 1983 but Chol Soo wasn't done fighting his right because he has been accused for doing things he didn't do but can never speak up because he didn't speak proper English. Until his death in 2014 Chol Soo Lee found purpose speaking to Bay Area youth about the importance of Asian American solidarity and the unremitting evil of the criminal justice system.

Article: Chol Soo Lee’s Complicated Heroism and Legacy https://www.aaartsalliance.org/magazine/stories/free-chol-soo-lee

Video: Let's Talk Chol Soo Lee Over Lunch | Independent Lens | PBS

https://youtu.be/pJ3opks4aVo?si=9I5-JZH5PW_E3Jmz

Gordon Hirabayashi, 1942-Pascaline T.

2025-03-07 19:11:19 UTC

Gordon Hirabayashi was an American born student at the University of Washington in 1942. During his senior year he was ordered to report to an internment camp in Northern California but he refused. A internment camp is prison specifically for Japanese Americans during World War II. Not many people denied this which made Gordon Hirabyashi decision civil disobedience. This made him a civil rights hero and he died on January 2, 2012 while he was 93. While given this order Hirabyashi stood up for himself saying, “If I were to register and cooperate… I would be giving helpless consent to the denial of practically all of the things which give me incentive to live,” he said then. “I must maintain the democratic standards for which this nation lives. I am objecting to the principle of this order which denies the right of human beings, including citizens.” This shows how resilient Gordon is, he wasn't afraid to fight for his freedom and didn't just speak for himself but all citizens. Despite this, he spent three and a half years in county jails and federal prison and the U.S Supreme Court kept the internment orders going.

Source: Remembering Gordon Hirabayashi

https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/remembering-gordon-hirabayashi

AAPI Civil Rights Heroes - Gordon Hirabayashi

Video:https://youtu.be/mrcLHAi5iOs?feature=shared

Southeast Asian Refugees

2025-03-07 19:13:06 UTC

we learn about how during Vietnam war many Vietnamese refugees migrated to The United states because of all the brutality going on because of the war . but in April 30, 1975, the fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War,

Black-Korean Alliance (BKA)- JOLIE PAUL

2025-03-07 19:13:53 UTC

The Black - Korean Alliance began around the 1950's-1990's. Throughout those years, these Koreans/Asians protested for their rights to make their own town aka "Koreatown" and gain human rights for all Asians whether they're immigrants or U.S Citizens. As this fight went on, many people died in the process of gaining rights for Asians and the ages of these people varied and so did their gender. This alliance caused police brutally on Asian-Americans, torcher, asians jobs such as faculty workers were at risk along with many of their businesses being shut down. to escape from these critical events asians would run away in little boats/ships. In years 1992-2012, this alliance was put to somewhat an end even tho asian-americas may go through similar events today just less brutally according to the paper of aka ending six years into the urban trenches.

Video Link :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_1TX1XS0ig (20:30 - 28:52)

Article : Timeline of Black-Korean Alliance

https://learn.aasc.ucla.edu/saigu/timeline/

1885 Mary Tape (Jose)

2025-03-07 19:17:58 UTC

https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fight-against-school-segregation-video/asian-americans-video/-Video link Mary Tape was a mother who fought for her daughters rights to allow her daughter to go to a public school in 1885. Before Mary Tape's movement Chinese people weren't allowed to go to school due to the widespread racism, mostly in California. At the end of the day they did not win and her children started going to school in downtown chinatown. She tried distancing herself from other Chinese people.

Soruce -https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-tape.htm

Sadao S. Munemori, the first Asian American to get the medal of honor

2025-03-07 19:19:12 UTC

Sadao Munemori, a kid who was born in August 17, 1922. He had faced some deep difficulties in his life, when he wanted to go use the public pool with a friend but turned away because he was Japanese, when he was 16 his father had died. In 1940, the month before the Pearl Harbor attack he had enlisted in the army after he was a mechanic, but since the Asian hate was going on him and his family were sent to internment camps, but then Munemori chose to transfer into the 100th Infantry Battalion in 1942 to avoid fighting in the Pacific. It was a move that required him to revert in rank from technical sergeant to private, but he accepted it. But one fateful day during 1945 Munemori dove onto an explosive to protect two soldiers, killing Munemori but in the process saving 2 American lives which is what has haven him the Medal of Honor for his family and the American Race to thank him for his heroic act.

1965 Delano Grape Strike - Third World Liberation Front Strike

elijahl182 — 2025-03-07 19:20:17 UTC

Filipino farm-workers affiliated with 10 different grape vineyards in Delano went on strike and demanded both their hourly rate and money that they earned after packing each box gets raised. They wanted their hourly rate to go up from $1.25 to $1.40, and their money earned after packing a box to go up from $0.10 to $0.25. This strike was a big risk for a lot of the workers, because many of them lived in company housing. This resulted in many of them being evicted with little or no notice. They continued on the strike even though the NFWA leadership didn't feel ready for it. But, despite the efforts of the farmers the region's growers hired replacement workers from other places in California, Oregon, Texas, and Mexico. This resulted in the NFWA leadership starting a boycott of the grower's products, where nobody bought them. Over a couple months, this resulted in the growers suffering from a drop of sales which pressured them to sign a labor agreement with the NFWA, which was the unions first because of how recently they had been made at the time. Over the next decade, the union continued to use boycotting to fix the imbalance between growers and workers in this area.

Sources:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/workers-united-the-delano-grape-strike-and-boycott.htm

Carlos Bulosan, Immigrated to America on July 1, 1930- Pascaline T.

2025-03-07 19:20:48 UTC

Carlos Bulosan was born in this small farming village in the Philippines called Mangusmana. His family had a hard time because of US colonization and the rich people hoarding all the wealth. To help out his family and get an education, he moved to the US when he was just 17. Even though he only had three years of school, he had low-paying jobs and faced a lot of racism. He got really sick with tuberculosis, had surgery, and lost most of his ribs and lung function. Despite all the discrimination, he educated himself and became a prolific writer, sharing the struggles of Filipinos in America. He never made it back to the Philippines and passed away in Seattle from bronchopneumonia.

Source: https://bulosan.org/

Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_yXp-e-gg

Richard Aoki Timeline 1954-2008

kadend9 — 2025-03-07 19:20:53 UTC

Richard Aoki joined and served in the army for 8 years and while serving in the army he became a government informant by 1964.In 1966 he attended Merritt college and met his friends the founders of black panther party and ask them to join even tho he wasn't black but he said ethnic/racial problems transcended race.In 1968 he attended graduate school at UC Berkeley and became a founder of AAPA.In January 1969, Richard Aoki helped establish the TWLF and became a leader in the student strike for Ethnic Studies. He used his Black Panther and AAPA experience to build unity among people of color in the struggle for Ethnic Studies programs.while doing this instead of always listening to his FBI handlers, he would feed them information that was already public knowledge.in 2008 instead of using his education to place himself apart he used it serve community,he was a coordinator for the first Asian american studies program.

Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqF2fLGjf9\

Links- https://jacobin.com/2018/08/richard-aoki-

fbi-informant-leonard-gallagher

https://apiahip.org/everyday/day-24-richard-aoki-asian-american-black-panther-amp-fbi-informant-oakland-amp-uc-berkeley-ca#:~:text=Aoki%20became%20a%20field%20marshal,American%20Political%20Alliance%20(AAPA)%20and

1960s-1970s The Asian American Movement

2025-03-07 19:20:57 UTC

There was many racial groups involved in campaigns for the civil rights until different communities brought themselves to collide with the Asian Americans. Until it led to the Asian American Movement that was influenced by student activists due to the Vietnam war and the power of black people. Due to this movement many racist stereotypes were being thrown at the Asians

Asian Coalition for Equality 1969- 1970s

2025-03-07 19:21:02 UTC

The Asian Coalition for Equality (ACE) was founded in 1969. It took place in setal. Its goal was to fight for racial justice for Asian Americans and other disadvantaged communities. Rev. Mineo Katigiri was the leader of ACE. In July, 1969, ACE graduate affiliates confronted the head of Washington State University's SEP program, Charles Evans, and demanded that Asian Americans were to be included in the UW’s affirmative action recruiting, which had only included Black, Chicano, and Indian students. After gaining approval, they created the first UW Asian American student organization. In 1969, going into 1970, ACE fought for elite clubs to open their doors to people of color.

Souce link: https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aa_ace.htm

1878 In re Ah Up court case (JOSE)

2025-03-07 20:08:07 UTC

Video Link - https://www.pbs.org/video/nottingham-te58fc/

On April 29th 1878 Ah Yup, a Chinese immigrant was DENIED the rights to naturalize by The Ninth Circuit Court in California. At the time all free white people, and all aliens of African nativity and people of African descent all had the right to naturalize. The only people who weren't allowed the right to naturalize was a “Mongolian” AKA a Asian American. That's because they weren't classified as a free white person even after he (Ah Yup) wrote a brief anthropological on classifications of races.

SORUCE

https://apa.si.edu/now/this-month-in-history-in-re-ah-yup-rules-chinese-ineligible-for-naturalized-citizenship-on-april-29-1878/#:~:text=On%20April%2029%2C%201878%2C%20the,that%20had%20been%20passed%20since.

1980s - 2010s: May Chen (Francesca D.)

2025-03-08 20:06:20 UTC

VIDEO LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyHzJyqYt0

May Chen is a famous labor activist who spent her whole career fighting for the rights of immigrant workers, especially in Asian American communities. She's been super involved with different labor movements and organizations like the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and Unite here, which helps workers in hotels, gaming, and food service. Chen has worked hard on organizing and supporting workers rights and dealing with issues like fair pay , safe working conditions, and empowering immigrant workers. Because she did what she did labor standards have gotten a lot better and she's given a voice to communities that often get overlooked in the labor movement.

SOUCE: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/riseup/feature/may-chen

Civil Liberties Act of 1978- Japanese American Redress

2025-03-08 20:33:04 UTC

This document recounts the experiences or Amy Iwaskai Mass, who was imprisoned with her family at the Heart Mountain Revolution Center in Wyoming during World War II. The camp was one of the ten designed to house Japanese-Americans unjustly imprisoned. It derives the horrible conditions they had to suffer in the life of camp. Those conditions include; barracks that were rudimentary, often lacking insulation and privacy, prompting the imprisoned to improvise to make them livable. They also had to learn the concept of “gamma” to embody resilience and stoicism under duress. The document aleo outlines the long and powerful journey towards redress for these injustices , building up to the passage of Civil Liberties Act of 1987, which provided reparations and a formal apology to the brave survivors.

Article:

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/redress-and-reparations-japanese-american-incarceration

Video:

https://www.google.com/search?q=civil+liberties+act+of+1987+-+japanese+american+redress+video&sca_esv=9214e60237169270&rlz=1CAOFBT_enUS1126&ei=gJ_MZ7-FCZy9p84PybCPiAQ&oq=Civil+Liberties+Act+of+1987+-+Japanese+American+Redress+v&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiOUNpdmlsIExpYmVydGllcyBBY3Qgb2YgMTk4NyAtIEphcGFuZXNlIEFtZXJpY2FuIFJlZHJlc3MgdioCCAAyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRirAjIFECEYqwJIwRNQ4gVY4AdwAXgAkAEAmAG-AaABmwSqAQMwLjO4AQHIAQD4AQGYAgOgArADwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR5gDAIgGAZAGCJIHBTEuMS4xoAf_FQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp&safe=active&ssui=on

1990s- 2006: Killing of Balbir Singh Sodhi (Francesca D.)

2025-03-08 20:46:06 UTC

VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FTLAypfs7U

In the 1990s Balbir Singh Sodhi Settled in Mesa, Arizona and became a successful business owner of a gas station. In September 15, 2001 Balbir Singh Sodhi was a Sikh (Religion) American who was the first person to be murdered in a hate crime following the terrorist attacks that were happening during that time. On September 15, 2001 he was shot and killed at his gas station by a man who “mistakenly” believed that Balbir wearing a turban as a part of his religion was associated with the terrorist. His death highlighted the wave of violence that affected killings of innocent people of those who are of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent in the aftermath of 9/ 11. In 2006 Arizona governor Janet Napolitano declared September 15 as a day of remembrance of Balbir Singh Sodhi.

SOUCE:https://www.npr.org/2018/09/14/647426417/people-saw-only-a-turban-and-a-beard-reflecting-on-a-post-sept-11-death#:~:text=On%20Sept.,and%20killed%20him%20as%20retaliation.

Ruth

2025-03-08 20:50:29 UTC

Japanese American anti-draft movement during WW2: During WW2 an estimate of 33,000 Japanese Americans were detained in incarceration camps. Japanese Americans were either enlisted in the military or were drafted into service. They felt it was unfair to to be drafted into military while their families were imprisoned and treated as enemies in their own country.

"and its freedoms even as their own relatives and friends remained behind barbed wire fences guarded by armed American soldiers. “.

After a lot of injustice a group of women from the "Minidoka incarceration camp" got together in February 1944. They protested with a petition to the government against drafting their American-born sons in the military. Unfortunately some Japanese Americans that refused to be drafted were arrested. This time period shows the injustices the Japanese American faced and the need to to protest against the draft. Making it a tough situation for many of them.

Source: https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/japanese-american-military-service-protest-during-wwii

Videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_WcDD1e1ew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FePu1yBk9E

Ruth

2025-03-09 00:35:33 UTC

Japanese-Mexican Labor Association 1903: In 1903 both Japanese and Mexican American workers were important to the agricultural in Oxnard, California. Many workers came from Mexico, Japan, India, China, and the Philippines. They all faced the challenge of low wages and and poor working conditions.

"shows just how thorny the harvest can be. But conflicts over wages and worker rights are not unique to this time and place, or even to the berry harvest."

Both Mexicans and Japanese people faced discrimination and were able to gather together and stand up for their struggles for better wages. The Japanese and Mexican labor Association (JMLA) is seen as an organization that united against the unfair labor practices. They face racism from the AFL (American Federation of Labor). Both groups united and showed effort to advocate for their rights and working conditions.

Source: https://densho.org/catalyst/japanese-mexican-americans-agricultural-allies-adversaries/

the Vietnam war. "https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history"

2025-03-09 01:11:01 UTC

the Vietnam war was a war between north and south Vietnam alongside their ally, The US. Their conflict was intensified by the cold war happening between the Soviet Union and the US. millions of the Vietnam Civilians were killed during this time of war. however, in 1975 it was the end of this war due to the fact Communist forces took over and seized control over south Vietnam, a year later in 1976, the country unified as one. to go more in depth, in 1968, it was known as the deadliest year for the American soliders in Vietnam because of all the damage that was done to Vietnam.

1960s-1970s: The Asian American Movement

2025-03-09 02:09:17 UTC

VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZr1DzaMmiI&t=30s

The Asian American Movement led in the 1960s and 1970s, involving different racial groups to share a identity and collided with the Asian Americans. Throughout this movement, student activists were influenced by the Vietnam war and the black power movements bringing many challenges upon them. This brought stereotypes and discrimination being targeted at them. Different Asian organizations were created to advocate for civil rights and protest for what they wanted which was to bring an end to racism. These Asian Americans wanted changes into hiring practices, the school's education, media stereotypes, and many more. Due to this movement, it brought a significance into transforming community institutions and gained Asian American political power expanding into different areas.

SOURCE:

https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aa_intro.htm

The Korean War 1950-1953

2025-03-09 14:05:41 UTC

June 25, 1950 marked the start of the Korean War. The cause was North Korean soldiers crossing the 38th parallel. This was the first military action of the Cold War. The U.S got involved on behalf of South Korea. As casualties increased with nothing good to come from them, the U.S and South Korea stalled the attacks from North Korea. The U.S feared that this war would be the cause of WWIII. In July 1953, the war ended. Some people in the U.S consider this war "The Forgotten War" due to the lack of attention it received.

https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/korean-war

1970s-1982: Vincent Chin

valeriar53 — 2025-03-09 19:32:56 UTC

VIDEO:

https://comcastnewsmakers.com/videos/2022/6/17/who-is-vincent-chin

Vincent Chin is a Chinese American born on May 18, 1955 , he was adopted and worked as a draftsman in Detroit Michigan. During his whole life he took care supporting his family financially. Chin was engaged with his fiancée, Victoria Wong. On June 19, 1982, he hosted his bachelor party until he was beaten with a baseball bat by two white autoworkers, Ronald Ebens, and Micheal Nitz caused by an anti-Asian hate crime. They started to target him calling him racial slurs due to his Asian heritage. Until he died on June 23, 1982 at 27 years old, this brought attention to the Asian American community to stand out in Detroit. Multiple advocate groups like the American Citizens for Justice started to protest from racial discrimination. Due to the cause of his death, his legacy remains to represent and fight for hate crimes of discrimination bringing the Asian Americans into unity.

SOURCE:

https://www.nps.gov/people/vincent-chin.htm

The Vietnam war November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975

2025-03-09 22:32:21 UTC

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Southeast Asia between the communist government of North Vietnam and the South Vietnamese government, supported by the United States. This War began in 1954 because of this ongoing conflict. After North Vietnam became communist, Just started the Arm conflict between the northern and southern armies until North Vietnam took the victory in the Battle of dien bien Phu in May 1954. Later on in 1955, “the strongly anti-communist politician Ngo Dinh Diem pushed Emperor Bao aside to become president of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam (GVN), often referred to during that era as South Vietnam.” The main cause of this war was the start/spread of communism while trying to maintain south asia. Because of the start of this war it resulted in many Vietnamese American civilians to die in the war. later on in 1973 after the battle between the US and North Vietnam, and in the Hostile between both nations. The war between North and South Vietnam continued up until April of 1975. because of the violence between his conflicts, it caused a toll on the Vietnam population. estimated 2 million Vietnamese people were killed, 3 million and another 12 million were wounded and others have become refugees. because of this it had demolished the infrastructure and economy of Vietnam.

video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVKd-x5QVc

^article-^{https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history#when-did-the-vietnam-war-end}

Asian American Political Activation (AAPA) Program

2025-03-09 23:07:16 UTC

article- https://cejce.berkeley.edu/centers/asian-pacific-american-student-development/aapa

video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0HaPMtWx3Y

The Asian American political Activation Is when a group of students come together to help connect the histories and futures and connect current Asian American students that are a part of the legacy of the third world Liberation Front, an American movement to help empower contemporary struggles that are happening to Asian Americans and Asian American organizers. this movement was started in 1968 in California and was founded by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee.

This group was made to help develop a unified and politicize identity for communities in Asia. This movement mostly started due to the shelter in place that would happen in these Asian communities. This movement is a movement that is used both on and off campuses in schools.

The Page Law - Taylor Vielot

2025-03-09 23:43:16 UTC

Video link: youtube.com and youtube.com

The Page Act of 1875 was an event that occurred in which the first federal immigration law was passed to restrict immigration for Asia to the United States. This law was mainly enforced upon people of Chinese descent( specifically women). The United States took extreme measure to ensure that people from Asia were unable to enter the US by questioning people who were Asia and they deemed suspicious. The Page Act was just a way to segregate people and have dominant power, it was a way to stop Asian women from obtaining social and economic status in the US. After this law was put into effect the Chinese exclusion act was later passed affecting Chinese men(1882). The Page Law remained in effect for almost a century(1875- 1974).

Source: immigrationhistory.org and nps.gov

Dalip Singh Saund(1920-1963)-Binta Drame

2025-03-09 23:58:17 UTC

video:https://youtu.be/2wIkShFWIlo?si=3i3UKn6Z9EjK7XQh

Dalip Singh Saund was born in India in 1899 and later passed in 1973 in Los Angeles, United States. During his life, Saund became the first Asian American and first Indian American to be elected to the U.S congress. He began his higher education by studying at the University of the Punjab. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1919. Later on he received Master’s degree at Berkeley. He is known for his remarkable work in the U.S government at the peak of the Cold War, his determination in the Democratic party despite the discrimination he had faced over time, and his vocal advocacy for civil rights and the interests of Indian Americans.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dalip-Singh-Saund

Diane C. Fujino

2025-03-10 01:17:49 UTC

Diane C. Fujino, is a very distinguished Asian-American activist and author who is known for her insights on Black and Asian American hardships, and Afro-Asian Solidarities (coordinated efforts of African and Asian peoples for changes in the cultural and economic development). In time, Fujino has helped give the public an understanding of Asian American experiences. This includes her discussion of common stereotypes that people of asian diasporas have faced over time.

Asian Americans for Action (Triple A)

2025-03-10 13:53:26 UTC

Asian Americans for Action is a political action committee established with the fundamental purpose of empowering the democratically-aligned Asian-Americans,Native Americans, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders communities to have a significant presence and voice in the political field across all of the leaves of the government in the U.S. Each element of this organizations structure is orientated towards strengthening the political influence of these communities and insuring that their concerns and aspirations are represented in the policy discussions. This organization operates as a trusted partner in the political landscape, assembling a robust network of political operatives, campaign professionals and leaders who actively collaborate to foster equitable representation in governance. The fund ensures that the community's needs address continuously and with the sustained advocacy.

Article: https://www.aaafund.org/about

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Jose Antonio Vargas - gio

2025-03-10 14:43:36 UTC

Jose Antonio Vargas is an Activist and an author. He was a person that was an undocumented immigrant. In the article, he was talking about his life and he wrote a book about his life as an undocumented person. He also was directed and produced a documentary called Documentea which is about his undocumented experiences. It was broadcasted on CNN and on Netflix. He is an activist for people that are undocumented and is a voice for them.

https://mcsilver.nyu.edu/bio/jose-antonio-vargas/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfu8TIU0T8

Tony DelaRosa

2025-03-10 15:06:49 UTC

He is an anti-bias and anti-racism activist, author, educator, speaker, poet, and researcher. His work has been featured in Harvard Ed Magazine, CNN, the Smithsonian, Hulu, and elsewhere. He has also won many awards such as the 2021 Inspire Award given by United Airlines. He is on his way to receive his PhD in Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/speaker/tony-delarosa/

Daniel Inouye

2025-03-10 16:33:43 UTC

Daniel Inouye was born on September 7th 1924 and sadly passed away on December 17th of 2012. Inouye was born in a Japanese household and ever since he was a kid he wanted to study medicine and become a surgeon. Even with this in mind he still decided to apply for the US military after graduating high school but was declined because of his ethnicity even though he was a US citizen. Eventually Inouye enrolled in the army again and was accepted but they made it clear to Inouye that he won't be deployed in Japanese territory because they feared the Japanese might betray them. So Inouye as well as many other Japanese American soldiers were deployed in Europe and unfortunately Inouye lost his arm due to a grenade. In 1947 Inouye was discharged from the army with the title of captain and with the thought in mind that he can never be a surgeon after the army, he decided to go to George Washington law school where he got his degree in the year 1952 and would soon be the first Japanese American to serve in Congress.

Article:

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/medal-of-honor-recipient-daniel-inouye

Video:
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Grace Lee Boggs

2025-03-10 16:55:34 UTC

Grace Lee Boggs was born in a Chinese Immigrant household in 1915. She studied in Barnard college and earned her Ph.D in Philisophy in Bryn Mawr College. She struggled with finding work after graduating. Something else to know about Grace Lee Boggs is that she was a very influential person to many people ranging from kids to full grown adults. She was married to a man named James Boggs in 1953 after she moved to Detroit and together they became the most influential people where they went after issues relating to labor civil rights issues, feminism, Black Power, Asian Americans and the environment. James Boggs sadly passed away in 1993 when Grace was only 78 which took a huge toll on grace and she became even more active in different Detroit communities.

Article:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100

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Grace Lee Boggs' Lasting Impact: AAPI Activism Then and Now

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chol soo lee

2025-03-10 18:09:23 UTC

SAALT - South Asian Americans

2025-03-10 18:12:25 UTC

The SAALT is a south asian American organization movement that began in the 2000-2024. in this movement they fought for racial justice through buildings , strategic communications and more. after 9/11 is there they got a kick start to here organization since they were protecting the civil rights towards South Americans since they were being targeted after this big event.

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https://saalt.org

Chy Lung v. Freeman - Jayla

jaylar37 — 2025-03-10 18:13:17 UTC

The Supreme Court sided with twenty-two women who sailed from China to San Francisco, deciding that Congress, not states, had the power to regulate immigration. Because the women traveled alone, the California Commissioner of Immigration determined that they were “lewd”, or prostitutes. They were detained and held on a $500 bond in gold until the Supreme Court ordered their release, declaring that only a federal immigration authority was empowered to determine the women’s status.

Ozawa vs. United states - Jayla

jaylar37 — 2025-03-10 18:15:30 UTC

The hardening of U.S. isolationism and nativism set the stage for the Supreme Court to affirm the 1790 Nationality Act’s prohibition against naturalization for Asians because they were considered racially not “white” regardless of their demonstrated acculturation and integration. Takao Ozawa was a graduate of a U.S. college, living and working in Hawaii with his family. While he was otherwise qualified for naturalization and citizenship. His citizenship application was rejected based on his race. The next year, in the case of Thind v. United States, the Supreme Court would contradict itself in applying a different standard of race in another case regarding Asian American citizenship.

The Chinese immigration Law -Aaron

2025-03-10 18:16:39 UTC

The Chinese immigration Law was the very first law to restrict an entire nationality from migrating to the United States Of America. The law was passed on May 6, 1882. The law was passed by Congress and signed by the then President Chester A. Arthur. This restriction lasted for a full decade before expiring in 1902, however it was soon extended for another 10 years, and then made permanent.

source: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act#:~:text=It%20was%20the%20first%20significant,immigrating%20to%20the%20United%20States.

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Japanese American Internment

2025-03-10 18:18:00 UTC

During WWll, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a paper following the events of pearl harbor, allowing military to confine anyone they deemed to be to be a threat as Japanese Americans into internment camps, forcing them to abandon their homes and daily lives.Over 100,000 Japanese Americans found themselves held in these camps, and many lost their homes and business due to not paying taxes because they had no way to. This event is very overlooked today, and many Japanese Americans are unsatisfied with the aftermath of these events, feeling lack of closure.

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https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/japanese-american-internment

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https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/japanese-american-incarceration-during-ww2/asian-americans-video/

Yuri Kochiyama - Zeferino F

2025-03-10 18:22:46 UTC

Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese American political and civil rights activists. She was an advocate for the liberation and empowerment of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Puerto Ricans. Her parents were first-generation Japanese immigrants and was well known in her community. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor her life changed. Her family was moved to a incarceration site as well as other Japanese Americans even if they were American Citizens. This was a law placed in fear by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt, worried that Americans of Japanese descent would side with Japan. They were labeled as "national security threats and her father (Recovering from Ulcer surgery) was refused medical treatment. They were held in those sites for the majority of the war. In 1960, her and her Husband(Bill Kochiyama) moved into the Projects in Harlem. Being exposed to her surroundings and to the Black and Puerto Rican communities struggling for freedom, sparked her interest for civil rights activism.

https://www.nps.gov/people/yuri-kochiyama.htm

1979 Orderly Departure Program - “second wave” of refugees from southeast Asia

2025-03-10 18:28:16 UTC

In 1975, North Vietnamese troops had closed the South Vietnamese capital which is in Saigon. This had made the United States order for an evacuation which would have over several thousand south Vietnamese soldiers and diplomatic officials. The results of this happening was that desperate south Vietnamese people pleading and swarming the gates of American Embassy.

In only 20 years, over 3 million Vietnamese people had fled Vietnam. Some on their way to flee died at sea. The remaining people ended up in the Philippines, Malaysia or Thailand which led to 2.5 million of the refugees to settle all around the world. Starting from July of 1979 to July of 1982, 620,000 refugees had permanently settled in over 20 countries, but families who were unlucky spent years waiting in refugee camps.

Erika Lee

elijahl182 — 2025-03-10 18:29:16 UTC

Erika Lee is an award winning historian and writer on Asian American history. The Making of Asian America: A History and America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. As the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, she grew up in the San Francisco bay area and earned her PhD from the University of California in Berkeley. She now works as a history professor at Harvard.

Source:

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/erika-lee-radcliffe-professor#:~:text=Erika%20Lee%2C%20the%20Carl%20and,History%20in%20the%20Harvard%20Faculty

1923 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind - Zeferino

2025-03-10 18:40:27 UTC

Bhagat Singh Thind was an Indian activist and a WW1 veteran. He was in a long struggle for the removal racial barriers to U.S. citizenship. He was born in the Punjab region of India and he migrated to Seattle in 1913 to attend school. Looking for an education and fleeing disease and repression by the British colonial authorities.

Cathy Park Hong Ronald Takaki

2025-03-10 21:48:40 UTC

Cathy Park Hong is an essayist and a poet who brings up topics of cultural criticism, and to bring light to the truth about racialized consciousness that are present in America.

She comes from a Korean Background. She is the daughter from Korean immigrant parents.

Throughout her childhood she was always trying to hide in the dark in her own shame and suspicion of her own life. She soon understand why these feelings were always happening. They would happen because of American optimism contracting your own reality.

This means that you believe the stereotypes and lies that are spread about your racial identity.

Cathy now uses her personal story to help dive deeper into racial consciousness that occurs in America to this day.

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https://blogs.und.edu/cfl/2021/05/celebrating-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month-at-cfl/?print=print

1944 Korematsu v. United States- Brielle

2025-03-13 20:35:54 UTC

The Korematsu v. United States case is significant because the Supreme Court upheld the government's right to intern Japanese Americans during World War II, despite the violation of their civil rights. On May 30, 1942, about six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the FBI arrested Korematsu for failure to report to a relocation center. Korematsu was tried in federal court in San Francisco, convicted of violating military orders and given five years on probation, and sent to an Assembly Center in San Bruno, CA. Korematsu asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear his case. On December 18, 1944, a divided Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race.

Article: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/annual-observances/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month/korematsu-v-us-balancing-liberties-and-safety/facts-and-case-summary-korematsu-v-us

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