Chinese in the South and in the Confederacy

Chinese in the South and in the Confederacy by Roberta Chew. September 29, 2015 The 1882 Foundation with the Alexandria Black History Museum hosted activities to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Celler Act) and the Civil Rights Movement. The activities sought to highlight instances where ethnic American histories overlapped.  Ted Alexandria, National Park Historian at the Antietam National Battlefield, provided these comments: Most don’t know that a few hundred Asians served the Union cause in the Civil War.  Even…

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Resources

The Experience of Chinese in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Becoming American:  The Chinese Experience Harpers Weekly:  The Chinese-American Experience, 1857-1892 Library of Congress:  The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 National Archives:  Federal Agencies' Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws National Archives:  Records of Chinese Persons Passing Through San Francisco and Honolulu During the Chinese Exclusion Period Anti-Chinese Attitudes and Violence Chinese Riot and Massacre:  Rock Springs, September 1885 CINARC:  Anti-Chinese Violence in the Pacific Northwest Harper's Weekly:  Anti-Chinese Riots UC Hastings:  State and…

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Building a Nation — Videos

Videos on Chinese Americans building the American nation   https://youtu.be/xvoMRdyVy0M   Union Pacific honors RR Workers: https://youtu.be/nWAgNI6H2M8   Interviews of descendants: part of the ongoing Stanford University project to find oral stories, documents, artifacts, etc from descendants of Chinese railroad workers: http://vimeo.com/129745934   https://youtu.be/1k0hgEioe1o   https://youtu.be/4Vwd2YIS9wA   https://youtu.be/fWIAv7yTqLE   https://youtu.be/OjTgWREKtIY   https://youtu.be/FDApel0eNIM https://youtu.be/pLfibMHqBDk

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Defending the Nation – Videos

Videos on Chinese Americans Defending the Nation https://youtu.be/ewgoHWyMW6o Comments on Chinese Americans in WWII, go to: https://archive.org/details/CSPAN3_20151018_194000_Chinese_Americans_in_China_During_World_War_II   See Kurt Lee, Uncommon Courage, Breakout at Chosen, Korean War: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/uncommon-courage-breakout-at-chosin-sneak-peek/12677 https://vimeo.com/88290470 More on Kurt Lee: https://vimeo.com/88290470 https://youtu.be/9M3Y6OBs5jc https://youtu.be/qAUrZjSdyeE

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