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The links below offer resources relating to Asian Pacific American history for K-12 education. Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Learning Lab) Becoming US is a new educational resource for high school teachers and students to learn immigration and migration history in a more accurate and inclusive way.
The 2024 Day of Remembrance program was generously supported by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Roosevelt Institute, the Japanese American Citizens League (national and D.C. chapter), Patti Hirahara, Nori Uyematsu, and the C.V. Starr Endowment for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Studies, administered by the ...
“Come Through – Asian Pacific American Voices at the Smithsonian” is a new five-episode video series launching May 1. Hosted by actor and musician Gillian Jackson Han, each episode will feature a Smithsonian expert focusing on various objects connected to Asian American stories in the Smithsonian collections.
community experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Through objects, oral histories , archival materials and public programs, the museum recognizes and honors the lives of Asian Americans and facilitates conversations on their critical contributions to food production and culinary innovations.
The event will pay tribute to two Japanese American leaders who played key roles in advancing Asian American and Pacific Islander history at the Smithsonian: Norman Mineta (1931–2022), former Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Transportation and chair of the 1998 Smithsonian Asian Pacific American national advisory group, and Franklin Odo ...
Sutchai Chaisuni, another worker, became a registered vocational nurse after studying for several years in night school. A few of the Thai workers started businesses. Sukanya and Win Chuai Ngan were the 2001 recipients of the Small Business of the Year award from the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program.
David has won 5 Edward R. Murrow awards, 20 Emmys, 4 National Asian American Journalists Association Awards and 2 RTDNA National Unity Awards. Karen Korematsu is the founder and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute and the daughter of the late Fred T. Korematsu. Since her father’s passing in 2005, Karen has carried on Fred ...
The 1960s found Carl Mydans back in the Philippines with MacArthur, as well as other locations in the Pacific. In 1968, Mydans returned to Bikini with a team of experts who were conducting tests on the now-abandoned island. While the islanders had struggled to cope with their exile, Bikini had been destroyed.
With Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON), he helped to establish the Stop AAPI Hate center. Max Leung. A native of San Francisco and a second generation Chinese American, Max Leung is a founder of SF Peace Collective.
Jack Soo was born Goro Suzuki on a ship in the Pacific Ocean on October 28, 1917, while his parents were en route to Japan. They had hoped for their first child to be born in Japan, but Soo arrived just a little too early. After his parents returned to the United States, Soo grew up in the Oakland, California, area.