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The second Indonesian church to be founded in the U.S. was a Baptist church, started by an ethnic Chinese pastor and with a predominantly ethnic Chinese congregation. [25] By 1988, there were 14 Indonesian Protestant congregations; ten years later, that number had grown to 41, with two Indonesian Catholic congregations as well. [26]
Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 – January 4, 1968) was a New Zealand-born American Presbyterian missionary who was a pioneer in the fight against slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution or indentured servitude. [1]
The Falcon in San Francisco; Fallen Angel (1945 film) The Fan (1996 film) Fatal Affair; The Fatal Hour (1940 film) Fathers' Day (1997 film) Fearless (1993 film) The Feminist and the Fuzz; Femmes de Sade; Final Analysis; Final Days of Planet Earth; Finch (film) The Five-Year Engagement; Flame of Barbary Coast; The Fleet's In; Flight to Hong Kong ...
The film tells the story of vaudeville performers in San Francisco, during the period of the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition when Alexander Graham Bell made the first transcontinental phone call from New York City to San Francisco. The movie introduced the song "You'll Never Know", which was sung by Alice Faye and won an Academy Award for Best ...
Filming began in San Francisco in October 1992 [15] [16] and then in China in February 1993. [15] Amy Tan did not participate in the casting, though Tan's mother, aunts, and four-year-old niece were extras in the movie, as well as Janet Yang's parents [11] and Tan herself briefly. [18] The filming was completed in March 1993. [15]
San Francisco's Asian population was approximately 4.2% of the population in 1940, versus 0.2% for all of the United States. [67] Although the cast included Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans (except during World War II, when the club's Japanese American performers were removed as part of the Japanese American internment ), Korean Americans ...
San Jose is 10% Vietnamese, and the San Francisco Bay Area has a sizable Vietnamese population. Other areas of Santa Clara County like Milpitas, and Alameda County’s Fremont is home to many. Chinatown, San Francisco and Tenderloin, San Francisco have communities.
C. Georgia Caine; Colleen Camp; Geraldine Carr; Gabrielle Carteris; Aya Cash; Cassandra Cass; Kathleen Chalfant; Jacki R. Chan; Lia Chang; Carol Channing; Laureen Chew