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Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans: the first 100 years. University of Washington Press, 1994. ISBN 0295974125, 9780295974125; Liu, Eric, A Chinaman's Chance: One Family’s Journey and the Chinese American Dream. Public Affairs, 2014. ISBN 978-1610391948; Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans Bai Nian Gan Ku : the First Hundred Years.
Precursors began when the Seattle City Council passed a number of ordinances directly aimed against its Chinese residents. [13] Members of the Knights of Labor chapter in Seattle then organized a movement against Chinese laborers. On February 7, many "committees" demanded Chinese to leave Seattle by the ship Queen of the Pacific.
He was later a member of the Seattle City Council for position 5 from 1962 until his death in 1965 in a plane crash. The Wing Luke Museum is named in his honor. The first Asian-American to hold elected office in the state, Luke was cited as an inspiration by Gary Locke, the first Chinese-American governor of Washington. [2]
Seattle is 5% Chinese, and 15% Asian. Nearby Bellevue has a larger Chinese and Asian/Asian Indian population, at least 25%. Significant Asian Seattle communities include Chinatown-International District, Beacon Hill and Capitol Hill. Most Asian people live in East King County (Bellevue area). Redmond is the 1st largest Asian percentage.
The museum is named for Seattle City Council member Wing Luke, the first Asian American elected to public office in the Pacific Northwest. [11] Luke suggested the need for a museum in the Chinatown-International District in the early 1960s to preserve the history of the rapidly changing neighborhood.
The Chinatown–International District (abbreviated as CID) is a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.It is the center of the city's Asian American community. Within the district are the three neighborhoods known as Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon, named for the concentration of businesses owned by people of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese descent, respectively.
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Ruby Chow (June 6, 1920 – June 4, 2008; Chinese: 周馬雙金; Jyutping: zau1 maa5 soeng1 gam1; pinyin: Zhōu Mǎ Shuāngjīn) was a Chinese American restaurateur and politician in Seattle, Washington. In 1974, she became the first Asian American elected to the King County Council and served until her retirement in 1986.