Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During World War II the military drew African-Americans to Hawaii. 600 ship workers and thousands of soldiers arrived. The West Loch Disaster occurred on May 21, 1944, when the LST-353’s cargo of ammunition and fuel ignited, killing 163; several of the dead were African-Americans. Subsequent wars in Asia continued to bring African-Americans ...
African-American history of Hawaii (1 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 12 January 2024, at 00:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The history of the African American press in Hawaii is comparatively brief, starting only with the publication of the short-lived monthly newspaper Harambee in 1974. Records remained so sparse that the founders of the Afro-Hawaiian News in 1987 were unaware of the previous newspaper's existence. [2] As a result, some historians have listed ...
Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state. Three months after ...
First Asian American male (U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii): Dick Yin Wong (1950) in 1975 [28] First Japanese American male (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit): Shiro Kashiwa (1936) in 1982 [27] First African American male (U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii): Micah W.J. Smith in 2024 [29]
African-American people in Hawaii politics (1 C) Pages in category "African-American history of Hawaii" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You “The Malu i Ka ‘Ulu program started on Moloka’i with, Hoʻakā Mana,” Davis said. “We are a Native ...