ASIAN AMERICANS
Explore the impact of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, on the country’s past, present and future, told through individual lives and personal histories.
Storefront of Chinatown meat and vegetable market, San Francisco, Calif., 1895.
(Courtesy of University of Washington, Special Collections)
Antero Cabrera (Ba-Long-Long) and weapon as Igorot villager in the "Living Exhibits" at 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
(Courtesy of Public Domain Photograph)
Bhagat Singh Thind as a young man in U.S. Army uniform with rifle, Camp Lewis 1918 (WWI). Thind, a Sikh American, was the first U.S. serviceman to be allowed for religious reasons to wear a turban as part of their military uniform.
(Courtesy of Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind Spiritual Science Foundation)
Filipino American labor organizer Larry Itliong. (undated photo)
(Courtesy of Corky Lee)
A protest with San Francisco State University in 1968.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
Chinese American actress Anna May Wong.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
George Uno at home in Japan, looking through archives (Buddy Uno story). Buddy Uno was an American journalist who worked for the Japanese government during WWII.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
Sikh patriot.
(Courtesy of Corky Lee)
Pins from Lorraine Agtang's private collection re: Delano Strike of Filipino American grape workers and more.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
Participants in the ROOTS (Restoring Our Original True Selves) program at San Quentin State Prison. (Undated photo)
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
Viet Thanh Ngugyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
Laureen Chew, SFSU 1968 strike organizer.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
Connie Young Yu, historian and author, at Golden Spike National Historical Park (Utah) for the Sesquicentennial (150th) Celebration.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
ASIAN AMERICANS production crew at Crystal City Texas Detention Center rally.
(Courtesy of of the film, ASIAN AMERICANS)
American filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña
(Courtesy of WETA)
American filmmaker Grace Lee
(Courtesy of CAAM)
Japanese-American actress Tamlyn Tomita
(Courtesy of WETA)
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