HISTORIC TIMELINE
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS
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Americans, such as Maya Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, and Tiger Woods.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
AT THESE WEBSITES
"Ancestors
in the Americas" -
Asian American History at PBS Online
Angel
Island Immigration Station
Asian
Art Museum -
Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture in San Francsico
Ask Asia -
A resource for students from the Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller, III, to strengthen mutual understanding between the United States and Asia.
The
Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles
The Chinese Historical Society of America -
Dedicated to the study, documentation,
and dissemination of
Chinese American
history.
Children of the Camps: The Documentary -
View historic timelines, photos, and program information from the PBS documentary on Japanese-American children interned during WWII.
Chinese
Immigrant Files -
from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Website
The Chinese in California (1850 - 1925) from the Library of Congress Website
The
Korean American Museum
The
Japanese American National Museum
Nisei
Baseball Research Project
National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Website -
from the Office of Diversity Management and Equal Employment Opportunity, U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" - Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
from the Library of Congress
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With 4.2 million people, California has the largest Asian-American population of any state in the union.
The largest Chinatown in the U.S. is in San Francisco, home to more than 14,000 people.
More than 220,000 Filipino-Americans live in the Los Angeles area, the largest concentration outside the Philippines.
The three remaining Japantowns (or Nihonmachi) of any size in the United States, are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Jose, California.
Los Angeles is home to over 160,000 Korean-Americans, the largest concentration outside of Korea.
The City of Westminster has more than 152,000 Vietnamese-Americans living in the area, the largest concentration in the United States.
(U.S. Census Bureau)
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