Between 1870 and 1942, people of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino ancestry toiled in the salmon canneries on coastal bays and streams from central California to western Alaska. Successive generations of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans formed the…
The long-awaited second edition of the oral history classic, Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans: The First 100 Years, now features 102 individual stories and portraits of pioneer elders. With candor, wit and eloquence, they describe their…
At the conclusion of WW II 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were released after three years of imprisionment in internment camps. Each was given $25 dollars and a train ticket home. For many home was California - the Santa Clara…
