May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
President Jimmy Carter signed a joint resolution declaring the first Asian Pacific American Heritage Week as May 4-10, 1979. Then in 1990, President George Bush signed an extension making the week-long event into a month-long celebration. Finally, Public Law 102-450 approved in October 23, 1992, designated May of each year Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
From our Journal of San Diego History:
Biographical Sketches of San Diegans:
- In Places Men Reject: Chinese Fishermen at San Diego, 1870-1893
- Reclamation and Preservation: The San Diego Chinese Mission, 1927-1996
- Rebuilding the California Southern Railroad:
The Personal Account of a Chinese Labor Contractor, 1884- The California Southern Railroad and the Growth of San Diego, Part II
- "Offensive Stupidity," and the Struggle of Abe Tokunoske
- Before the War: The Japanese In San Diego
- Philip II Orders the Journey of the First Manila Galleon
- San Diego's Chinese Mission
- The San Diego Nikkei Experience, 1942-1946
- Further and Further Away 1942 relocation of San Diego's Nikkei community
- The Chinese at Sorrento
More San Diego Asian American History:
- Ah Quin was the unofficial of "Mayor of Chinatown"
- Clara Breed corresponded with Japanese children in WWII concentration camps
Asian American History:
- San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
- Japanese American National Museum "Dear Miss Breed" letters from camp
Other Links:
- The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 from the Library of Congress
- A History of Japanese Americans in California from National Park Service
- A History of Chinese Americans in California from National Park Service
- A History of the Chinese in California
- Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego
- Chinese Americans in Los Angeles: A Timeline
- Asian American History Timeline
- Census Bureau statistics
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History and Culture
- Asian American Heritage Association
