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Asian farmers, especially the Japanese and Filipino, have sold their produce and goods at Seattle's Pike Place Market since 1912. Pictured in the late 1980s is a stall operated by a Filipino Ameican family, the Primeros, who grew flowers and produce…

These workers are cutting lettuce on the Tsurusaki farm on teh West Vally Highway in Auburn.

Under the old cannery syste, workers were forced to buy supplies such as clothing and other goods at inflated prices from contractors. Workers often found themselves in debt before the canning season even started.

Every spring, thousands of Filipino cannery workers, who called themselves "Alaskeros," were dispatched by their union to canneries in Alaska. Pictured is Salvador del Fierro (center with hat), a cannery foreman, who stongly advocated for workers in…

The early Chinese found the greatest job stability in the salmon canning industry. Henry Lock, whose parents were one of the earliest Chinese families to settle in Olympia, is pictured in a cannery in Kenai, Alaksa in 1936.

Chinese workes built the major railroad lines from Kalama to Tacoma, and from Spokane to the western slop of the Cascade Mountains.

The Chinese Information and Service Center in Seattle offers bilingual activities to supprt Asian youth, most of whom are ethnic Chinese from different parts of Asia. Here, the Center sponsors its 1992 annual Summer picnic for the youth and their…

The 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act allowed many Amerasian children to come to the U.S. Pictured in front of the Vietnam Veterans Mermorial in Olympia are some clients of Interaction Amerasian Project in Seattle, which provides support for Amerasians.…

"Shortly after I had arrived in the U.S., I entered the third grade. I only spoke a dew words of English, such as 'hello' and 'goodbye.' I remember how frightened I was when I first walked into a classroom full of stangers. I couldn't understand what…

One million Cambodians were brutally tortured and executed under the fanatical Pol Pot regime. Nam Keo and his wife escaped to a camp in Thailand where they lived for three years. They spent nine monthes in a resettlement camp in the Philippines…