Angel Island oral history project, 1975-1990.

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Angel Island oral history project, 1975-1990.

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This collection includes copies of transcripts or summaries of 62 oral histories with Chinese immigrants detained at Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940. Includes 12 female and 40 male detainees, along with 3 inspectors, 2 interpreters, and a kitchen helper, minister's son, YMCA director, son of a matron's assistance, and the wife of a maintenance man. Also includes a brief summary and proposal of the project, with a list of interviewees and interview questions.

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University of California, Santa Cruz, UCSC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7960812

University of California, Santa Cruz, UCSC

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Online Archive of California

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Lai, H. Mark

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Him Mark Lai was born in San Francisco on November 1, 1925. He worked from 1953-1984 as a mechanical engineer for the Bechtel Corporation. By avocation, he is a historian and acknowledged as the dean of Chinese American Studies. He has written numerous books and articles relating to Chinese American history and held teaching positions at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Lai participates in many Chinese community organizations and is the recipient of many...

Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.)

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Yung, Judy

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The Chinese Women of America, 1848-1982, project was proposed by Judy Yung in January 26, 1981 to establish a "pictorial exhibit and resource catalog that visually dramatizes the historical, racial, and sexual inequities suffered by Chinese American women in order to promote the need to understand and remedy present educational inequities faced by minority women." From the description of Chinese Women of America 1848-1982 project files. ca. 1981. (University of California, Berkeley)....