sfi quiz #1

2020

Stop AAPI Hate Founded to Resist Violence

• Responded to a "rise of COVID-19-related anti-Asian racism"

1992

Sa I Gu

• Korean American perspective of the LA Riots, which lead to "community organizations (like afterschool programs or projects with non-Korean communities), run for government office in Los Angeles (like city council representative), and ensure community neighborhoods and spaces (like Koreatown in Los Angeles) would continue to blossom over the next thirty years.”

1975

Southeast Asian Diasporas

• Southeast Asian refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fleeing violence

1968

The Asian American Movement

• Student Activism during the Civil Rights movement establishes Asian American Studies at SFSU and UC Berkeley

1965

The Immigration and Nationality Act

• Removed the 1924 Quota Act, increased Asian Immigration

1965

Filipino Agricultural Workers initiate the Delano Grape Strike

• Formed in solidarity with Latino workers

1947

Wataru Misaka is the first Person of Color in the (now) NBA

1942

The Incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans

1932

Anna May Wong is the first Chinese American Hollywood Star

1923

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

• With American citizenship reserved for "free white persons," the Court ruled that Asians were not white and Thind was ineligible for citizenship.

1910

Angel Island Opens in San Francisco Bay

• Primary point of entry for Asian Immigrants

1900

Sam Wak, first Censused Asian in Wake County, NC

• He rented a home and worked as a “laundryman.”

1898

America Annexes the Philippines

• Result of the Spanish American War, prompted resistance of freedom fighters

1882

The Chinese Exclusion Act

• Also excluded Chinese immigrants from citizenship

1869

Chinese Railroad Workers help complete the Transcontinental Railroad

1839

Chang and Eng Bunker settle in North Carolina

• Originally from Siam, the twins were famous for touring to display their conjoined bodies.

1781

Antonio Miranda Rodriguez is a Filipino Founder of Los Angeles

1587

Morrow Bay, CA is the landing site of the first Asians in what will become the US