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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | New York City Jail Reform & Chinese New Yorkers’ Civil Rights Movements

The year of 1982 marked the awakening of the Chinese American Civil Rights Movements. On June 23, 1982, 陈果仁 (Vincent Chin) was beaten to death by two white men in Detroit. The lenient sentence led to an outcry from Asian-American community. Some six hundred miles away in New York City, on November 19, tens of thousands of Chinese New Yorkers marched in the streets of NYC protesting the city’s proposal of building a new prison in the vicinity of Chinatown. Over the next forty years, as the number of jails increased, the political participation of Chinese New Yorkers increased as well. After many years of efforts, Chinese New Yorkers began to win more and more elected city seats.

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Open Letter to Fellow Chinese Americans: Include Chinese American History in U.S. K-12 Curriculum

Together, let us compile all the historical records about the contributions, sufferings, and battles for justice from the Chinese American community. Our ultimate goal is to include this important Chinese American history into elementary and secondary school curriculums.

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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | Honor and Duty: The Chinese American “Flying Tigers” in World War II

In the famous 14th US Army Air Force, several logistic maintenance and intelligence squadrons were composed entirely of Chinese American soldiers, who proudly call themselves part of the “Flying Tigers”.

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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | Joe Shoong: The First Chinese-American millionaire and the Founder of National Dollar Stores

Joe Shoong (1879-1961) was a Chinese-American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded National Dollar Stores. He was one of the first Chinese-American millionaires and was once described by Time Magazine as the “richest, best-known Chinese business man in the U.S. ”. Though National Dollar Stores is now closed, it served the local communities for a long time in the 20th century. As a philanthropist, Shoong funded Chinese schools, universities, churches, hospitals and other organizations for educational or humanitarian purposes. After World War II, Shoong established the Joe Shoong Foundation, which continues to support local communities.

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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | Silicon Valley Chinese American Leaders

Since the 1960s, Chinese immigrants have arrived in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley; many more have come from the mainland since the eighties. In the last four decades, many of them have become high tech entrepreneurs and engineers who contributed a great deal to Silicon Valley and the US economy. The purpose of this article is to introduce 54 of these leaders to the audience.

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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | Chinese American Figure: Professor Yanchang Deng (Frank Tang)

Those who went to high school or college in mainland China and loved studying English will remember Deng Yanchang’s frequent articles on oral English in the magazine English Language Learning. Professor Deng Yanchang, born in Phoenix, Arizona, was a very distinctive figure of the Deng family.

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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | Chinese American Figure: Computer Industry Magnate, Inventor, and philanthropist Dr. An Wang

As the fifth richest American in 1984, with 40 patents and 23 honorary degrees, Dr. An Wang was a computer industry magnate, inventor, and philanthropist who founded Wang Labs, which successfully competed with large companies such as IBM in the 1970s and 1980s. In the mid-1940s, after passing the competitive China Overseas Graduate Examination, he was accepted by Harvard University as a Ph.D. student and became a leading figure in the electronics industry in the world. His breakthrough in manufacturing core memory equipment was one of the greatest technological innovations of the last century. His Fortune 500 company Wang Labs, became a market leader in desktop calculators, word processors, and IBM-compatible mainframe computers. Most of his philanthropy was dedicated to strengthening understanding between Chinese and Western cultures and improving the arts, schools, and health care in Boston and surrounding communities in Massachusetts.

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Historical Record of Chinese Americans | Wong Kim Ark and Citizenship: Right of the Soil and Right of the Blood

United States citizenship law is founded on two traditional principles – “jus soli” (“right of the soil”) and “jus sanguinis” (“right of the blood”). A person born in the United States who is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States is a U.S. citizen at birth. However, this was not true more than 100 years ago. As a pioneer of Chinese immigrants in this country, Wong Kim Ark obtained his citizenship by challenging the U.S. law through “right of the soil” and later helped his sons (including one “Paper Son”) become U.S. citizens through “right of the blood”.

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