Records were used when Chinese Americans immigrated to the US. During the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese couldn't become citizens and had to apply to enter the US. These files are now housed at the National Archives and can be accessed online.…
Newspaper article in Northwest Asian Weekly. Richard Chen meets Mark Roberts who was on of the crew of the USS Whipple which picked up refugees including Chen from boat off the Vietnamese coast in 1978.
Richard Chen meets Mark Roberts who was on of the crew of the USS Whipple which picked up refugees, including Chen, from boat off the Vietnamese coast in 1978
Article about the difficulty and hardship faced by Seattle produce markets because of a U.S. Treasury Dept. order prohibiting financial transactions with Japanese aliens in purchasing fruits and vegetables from them. Since 80 percent of the fresh…
Article about alien Japanese farmers withholding their produce because of U.S Treasury restrictions on their entering the markets and dealing in financial transactions. U.S. Trasury licenses were being issued to them to allow them to market their…
Article about how the prohibition against any financial dealing with Japanese aliens was making a shortage of fresh vegetables available to the general public because the aliens weren't able to sell their produce.
Article on how the Federal Reserve Bank made changes in its previous policy of not allowing Japanese aliens to be paid for their produce, but the law was changed.
