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Thank you to Garland County Justice of the Peace Esther Hunter Dixon and the NAACP for organizing this Peace Vigil in Hot Springs to discuss ending hate in our society. […]
June 19, 1982: The killing of Vincent Chin. This one gets me, every time. Every time. Four days after being held down and beaten in the head with a baseball […]
August 19, 1973 Martial arts movie Enter the Dragon premieres, three weeks after its action star, Bruce Lee, dies from an allergic reaction to pain medication in Hong Kong. In […]
January 4, 1965 Patsy T. Mink U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink of Hawaii is sworn in as the first Asian American woman, and first woman of color, to serve in […]
August 24, 1959 Hiram L. Fong Born in Honolulu the son of poor Chinese immigrants, Hiram L. Fong is sworn in as Hawaii’s first U.S. Senator, becoming the first Asian […]
January 21, 1910: ANGEL ISLAND The immigration station Angel Island opens in California’s San Francisco Bay, serving as the country’s major port of entry for Asian immigrants, with some 100,000 […]
January 3, 1957 Dalip Saund of California is sworn in as a U.S. Representative, becoming the first Asian-American, first Indian American and first Sikh to serve in Congress. November 1956, […]
There are only ten days left of May (Asian American Pacific Islander Month), so I will be doubling down on some AAPI posts in order to get through more of […]
Introducing one of my FAVORITE Asian American Historical Heroines… In 1912, at only 16 years of age, Mabel Ping Hua Lee, led a parade of ten thousand suffragists through New […]
What makes YOU a US Citizen? Quite possibly, Wong Kim Ark… The United States vs. Wong Kim Ark This Supreme Court case established the precedent that ANY person born in […]
He stood just four feet five and a half inches, but Y.C. Hong was a giant in the Chinese American community. As one of the first Chinese Americans admitted to […]
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned all immigration from China. This was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Chinese businessmen, however, could obtain visas to […]