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E. Samantha Cheng: Discovering the Mississippi Delta Chinese Legacy
E. Samantha Cheng explores the Chinese community in the Delta, beginning with the first 16 Chinese who immigrated there during the 19th century in her latest documentary, “Honor and Duty: The Mississippi Delta Chinese.”
United States v. Wong Kim Ark | The Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark had acquired U.S. citizenship at birth. Learn the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act in a special presentation of American Experience, coming to PBS on Tuesday, May 29 at 8/7c. Learn more at…
Declaration of Chinese Merchant
Before he left San Francisco in 1902, Tom Sing swore in a Declaration of Chinese Merchant so that he would be able to reenter the U.S. Merchants were in the category exempt from Chinese Exclusion Act.
A Chinese Born in Hawaii and His American Passport
David Loo's birth certificate and American passport
Chinese Immigration Interview at Angel Island
a Chinese man was receiving questioning at Angel Island when Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect.
Yamei Kin's Files in Chinese Exclusion Files
the sample Chinese Exclusion files shows what documents a Chinese needs to carry before entering the U.S. and what a Chinese person experience at the customs
New York Times Report on Yamei Kin's Soy Project for USDA
New York Times runs a page-length report on Yamei Kin's trip to China to study soy food on USDA's behalf to alleviate the meat shortage of the U.S. during World War I.
Chinese Gold Miners in Central California
a few Chinese gold miners and their white coworkers on a railway track
"Throwing Down the Ladder by Which They Rose”
a 1870 cartoon that shows the white Americans kicked off the ladder by which the Chinese entered America