Asian Pacific American history with a Northwest focus

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OCA - GREATER SEATTLE CHAPTER

Asian Pacific Islander American History

The "Tacoma Method": Story about the Chinese expulsion from Tacoma

Finding Gold Mountain Took Courage: Early Chinese immigrants

Chinese Civil War Volunteers Remembered

Seattle PI: Chinese American veterans' service often gets overlooked

America's Philippine Experience

Chinese Americans in the Columbia River Basin : WSU history website

The Chinese in California

Case that determined Asians were not equal: The People vs. Hall

07/05/04 (AW) - 'Chinese Must Go,' 125 Years Later

Seattle Labor & Civil Rights History Project

Recommended Websites

Asian Pacific American Historical Timeline

Densho Project remembers Japanese American Incarceration

Asian Nation - Asian American History, Demographics and Issues

Selected Subjects

Univ. of WA: Internment Camp Harmony Exhibit

07/04/06 (PC) - Pioneering Japanese Colony to be Resurrected

Chinese American Data Center

Chinese American Experience: 1857 - 1892

Anti-Chinese Activism -- Seattle

Miners force Chinese from Newcastle mine June 3, 1876

Chinese Americans

Chinese funeral held for Chun WA in Seattle, July 21, 1873

Asian Americans in the Northwest

International District Cybertour

White and Indian hop pickers attack Chinese in Squak on Sept. 7, 1885

Encyclopedia of Washington State History

Tacoma expels entire Chinese community, Nov. 2, 1885

Seattle mob rounds up Chinese on Feb. 7, 1886

Chinatown-International District - Thumbnail History

Furuya Company founded in Seattle in 1892

Japanese shipping firm begins regular run, Aug. 31, 1896

Northwest Japanese newspaper history

State Supreme Court denies citizenship to Takuji Yamashita, Oct. 22, 1902

Frank Matsura arrives in Okanogan county 1903

Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend & Gunjiro Aoki weds Gladys Emery, 1909

Japanese Americans in Seattle and King County

Japanese Farming

Japanese Immigration to the Puget sound Region

Washington state legislators pass the Alien Land Law, 1921

Fujimatsu Moriguchi starts business that evolves into Uwajimaya, 1928

Japanese American Citizen's League founded in Seattle, 1930

Gordon Hirabayashi challenges American exclusion orders, May 16, 1942

More than 1,000 of Japanese Ancestry forced from Yakima Valley, June 4, 1942

Filipino Americans in Seattle

Filipino Cannery Workers

Rizal Park

Filipino Pio de Cano wins right to own property April 30, 1940

Southeast Asian Refugees Become Americans

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Japanese Lion Dance Costumes,
courtesy Wing Luke Asian Museum

Articles from the Encyclopedia of Washington State History

08/04/20 (IMDiversity) - Born in the USA: Wong Kim Ark and the Right of APAs to Be Citizens

EMBRACING THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF CHINESE AND ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES

How Asian-Pacific Americans won the right to be Americans: Wong Kim Ark

Special: Excerpts from Doug Chin's history about the
Seattle International District: The Making of a Pan-Asian American Community

08/04/20 (IMDiversity) - History of Asians in the San Gabriel Valley