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Map of Washington, D.C., with Chinatown highlighted in yellow. Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants, but fewer than 300 remained in 2017. The current neighborhood was the second ...
March on Washington commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech. 1986 – March 1 – November 15 The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament: From Los Angeles, California to Washington, D.C. (a.k.a.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
More than 130 firefighters responded to an apartment building fire in the Chinatown neighborhood that displaced 70 people and injured six. City officials ignored neighbors' warnings in Chinatown.
He was also chairman of the Chinatown Development Corporation, and had emigrated from Taiwan to the United States as a teenager. [ 4 ] : §7:9 On November 20, 1986, the city dedicated the traditional Chinese gate; [ 5 ] the signatures of Mayors Marion Barry (of Washington DC) and Chen Xitong (of Beijing) are engraved on the dedication plaque at ...
Jan. 13—Firecracker permit sales remained relatively unchanged from the previous year in 2023, which was marked by large seizures of illegal fireworks approaching New Year's Eve. There were ...
2005 - Los Angeles Chinese American Pioneers in Law — Betty Tom Chu, Judge Rose Hom, You Chung Hong (1898-1977), Judge Ronald S.W. Lew (Chinese name: 刘成威), Judge Jennifer Lum, Judge Delbert Wong, and Debra Yang (Chinese: 楊黃金玉) [12]
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