Introduction

Timeline of Asian American History

Asian American History Resources on the World Wide Web

Primary Sources - Ordered by chronology and topic

• Introduction: Nakahama Manjiro
• Establishing Hawaii’s First Sugar Plantation
  
  • William Hooper
    
• Working in the Cane Fields
• A Poem About Cane Work
• A Chinese-American Protest
  
  • Norman Asing
    
• The First Chinese Newspaper in America
• Racism and the Law
• California Imposes a Tax on Chinese Laborers
• A Chinese Merchant’s Appeal to Congress
  
  • Pun Chi
    
• Reasons for Migration
  
  • Elizabeth Wong
    
• Conditions in China
• The Human Meaning of Migration
• Singing About Migration
• The Pangs of Family Separation
• How Emigrants Could Afford to Migrate
• Signing a Labor Contract
• Women Migrants

• Introduction: Chinese Immigrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
• Chinese Miners Describe the Rock Springs Massacre
• A Mother Protests Against the Denial of Equal Education for Her Daughter
  
  • Mary Tape
    
• A Protest Against the Statue of Liberty
  
  • Saum Song Bo
    
• The Supreme Court Speaks Out on Equal Protection
• The Citizenship Rights of Chinese Born in the United States
• Experiencing Discrimination
  
  • Do-Yun Yoon
    
• Housing Discrimination
• Prejudice Against Indian Americans
• A Protest Song
• Self-Hatred
• Barring Female Immigration
• The San Francisco Building Trades Council Denounces Chinese Immigration
• The Life of a Chinese Immigrant
  
  • Lee Chew
    
• Can Indians Become American Citizens?
• Angel Island Immigration Station Poetry
• A Message to the President about Anti-Chinese Sentiment
• A Petition for Separate Chinese Schools
• A White Labor Leader Attacks Chinese Immigration
• A Defense of Chinese Immigration
• Another Defense of Chinese Immigration
• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Rock Springs Massacre

• Introduction: Internment
• Ordering Internment
• How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs
• Experiencing Internment
• Repealing the Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Repeal Act
• Was Internment Constitutional?
• The Legal Battle Against Internment

• Introduction: Arn Chorn

This site was updated on 14-May-08.