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Japanese Internment
“…Japanese-Americans in ten isolated internment camps scattered across seven western states. Called relocation camps, they resembled minimum security prisons. In these concentration camps, American citizens who had committed no crimes were locked behind barbed wire…”
(http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=43).
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Micheal Woo
He was hired for UCWA and while working there, he helped enforce court-ordered desegregation of Seattle’s construction unions. Woo also co-founded Alaska Cannery Workers Association.
(http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/woo.htm)
By the way he is still alive so I used his birth date instead of death. That is why he is put before the timespan on the timeline. -
Nationality act of 1965
“The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was a landmark reform that finally lifted restrictions on immigrating to the U.S., eliminating previous nation-origins quotas that had only allowed a small number of people to emigrate from Asia and naturalize.”
(https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf)
This allowed more people from Asia to emigrate to the U.S., bring their families, and apply for citizenship. -
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Asian American Movement
Also for people, I'm using the day they died for the date. -
New consciousness for Asian Americans about Challenging stereotypes
"...demand an end to racist hiring practices, biased school curricula, demeaning media stereotypes, residential discrimination, and the gentrification of historically Asian American neighborhoods."(http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aa_intro.htm) These are all reasons for why the Asian American Movement started. -
Oriental Student Union
"The OSU's protests helped kick start the local Asian American student movement by combining direct action tactics with ideologies originally developed by black power organizations" (https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aa_osu.htm) -
International District Preservation Movement
Helped Asian American activists to gain money to preserve Seattle's International district.
(http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aa_intro.htm) This shows an outcome of Asian Americans fighting. -
Lau v. Nichols
Helped Asian Americans who didn't speak much English by enforcing bilingual programs.
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Confucius Plaza construction project
"...it all began in the streets of Chinatown in 1974. Moved to action by a developer who refused to hire Asian workers for the massive Confucius Plaza construction project" (https://www.aafe.org/who-we-are/our-history). This lead to activists participating in months protests and fighting. This created a strong basis to the Asian American Movement. -
The Death of Vincent Chin
His death is important to the Asian American Movement because it raised awareness for hate crimes motivated by race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and disability of the victim. There is now a federal law due to Chin's death that did not exist prior his beating.
(https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/06/22/remembering-vincent-chin) -
March Fong Eu
She was the first women, Asian American elected California's secretary of state. This was important because it showed that the movement was going somewhere and gave hope to activists.
(http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html)
