sfi quiz #1

Stop AAPI Hate Founded to Resist Violence

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

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.”

Southeast Asian Diasporas

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

The Asian American Movement

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

The Immigration and Nationality Act

Removed the 1924 Quota Act, increased Asian Immigration

Filipino Agricultural Workers initiate the Delano Grape Strike

Formed in solidary with Latino workers

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

The Incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans

Anna May Wong is the first Chinese American Hollywood Star

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.

Angel Island Opens in San Francisco Bay

Primary point of entry for Asian Immigrants

Sam Wak, first Censused Asian in Wake County, NC

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

America Annexes the Philippines

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

The Chinese Exclusion Act

Also excluded Chinese immigrants from citizenship

Chinese Railroad Workers help complete the Transcontinental Railroad

Chang and Eng Bunker settle in North Carolina

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

Antonio Miranda Rodriguez is a Filipino Founder of Los Angeles

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