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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…

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…