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The Asian American Movement was a sociopolitical movement in which the widespread grassroots efforts of Asian Americans effected racial, social and political change in the U.S., reaching its peak in the late 1960s to mid-1970s.
The sentencing incited national outrage and fueled a movement for Asian American rights. [49] Vincent Chin's murder was the first federal civil rights trial for an Asian American. Led by activist Helen Zia, several Asian American lawyers and community leaders banded together to create American Citizens for Justice.
Asian Americans: an interpretive history (Twayne, 1991). ISBN 978-0-8057-8437-4; Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: An Ethnic and Political History (1997) Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee. A New History of Asian America (2014) Okihiro, Gary Y. The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (2001) online edition excerpt and text search
The AAPA sought to build a multi-ethnic Asian American political movement and create alliances with other people of color. It advocated for self-determination for Asian Americans and all people of color, supported all oppressed people around the world, and declared solidarity with colonized and decolonized nations around the world.
In 1969, Shizuko "Minn" Matsuda and Kazu Iijima founded the Asian Americans for Action (Triple A or AAA) in New York City.The two women were inspired by the Black Power movement and originally planned a Japanese American political and social action movement, but ultimately chose to make it a pan-Asian organization, inviting members of all Asian ethnic groups to join. [1]
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Prior to the 1960s, Asian immigrants and their descendants had organized and agitated for social or political purposes according to their particular ethnicity: Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, or Asian Indian. The Asian American movement (a term coined by the Japanese American Yuji Ichioka and the Chinese American Emma Gee) gathered all ...
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.