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Talk Story Event: Community Collaboration + 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad

I Street Conferencing Center 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (entry from I Street between 6/7th streets), Washington, DC, United States

Join us as we launch into the 2019 season of Talk Story Programming with an exciting community discussion on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, coming up in May 2019. Joining us from New York will be activist and photographer Corky Lee and our Executive Director Ted Gong. The two […]

Talk Story: Wong Chin Foo & Chinese Exclusion Act

Studio Xfinity 715 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

JOIN US: Scott D. Seligman on Wong Chin Foo who challenged Denis Kearney on anti-Chinese laws, and a film screening of Rick Burns and Li-Shin Yu’s Chinese Exclusion Act.

Talk Story Event: Remember 1882

I Street Conferencing Center 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (entry from I Street between 6/7th streets), Washington, DC, United States

The first comprehensive immigration reform was enacted in 1882 to exclude Chinese from immigrating to the US and to prohibit them from becoming American citizens. Ted Gong, Director of the 1882 Foundation, shares his thoughts about the legacy of this Act and its highly relevant impact on the immigration debate today. Register here When joining […]

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Chinese Exclusion Act Film Screening

Arlington VA Public Library 1015 N Quincy St, Arlington, VA, United States

A PBS "American Experience" Original Documentary (PG) The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 had a profound influence on immigration during and beyond its 60 year period of enforcement. This act barred Chinese workers from coming to this country, and prohibited Chinese nationals, who were already here in the United States as laborers for American railroads […]

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