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While Frederick Douglass was one of few to speak against anti-Chinese immigration sentiment in the 1860s, society tended to express frustration against Chinese Americans at the time due to their employment working on this industrial technology.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
"Yellow Peril Supports Black Power" is a phrase that comes from this decade when students at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley united to form the Third World Liberation Front.
What is the 1960's?
100
The corrupt system of dominance that ultimately benefits from pitting Asian and Black communities against one another
What is white supremacy?
100
A 2020 Letter for Black Lives is a letter cultivating solidarity from the perspective of Asian communities. It is in response to the death of this Black man who was killed by police that pinned him to the ground in Minnesota.
Who is George Floyd?
100
Putting one's name down in these formal requests to gather support for a specific cause is one way to amplify the collective voices of many.
What are petitions?
200
Martin Luther King Jr learned much about anti-war sentiment from Vietnamese peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who was a well-known practitioner this religion.
What is Buddhism?
200
In 1995 the Bandung Conference was the first expansive Asian African conference that worked to advance economic and cultural cooperation. Additionally, it worked to oppose this practice where one country occupies another and exploits it's resources.
What is colonization?
200
The colonialist idea beginning with the letter "x" that perpetuates fear of individuals from countries different to you. Coincides with the racism and prejudice towards those who come from different countries.
What is xenophobia?
200
The Asian American Advocacy Fund has a program called Asian Americans for Black Lives that provides a platform for solidarity among the Asian and Black communities. What are two ways you can stand in solidarity with these communities?
What are educating yourself and taking action?
200
The fastest and most effective way to search for electronic information and self-educate about topics that pertain to anti-racism. Currently owned by Indian-American, Sundar Pichai
What is Google?
300
Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama respected one another as allies and friends. It was an unlikely friendship due to the Japanese sentiment to avoid attracting potentially negative attention. This directly contradicted the movement that Malcolm X preached, which was called this.
What is the Black Power Movement?
300
This organization, notoriously known for their violence against Black communities, destroyed houses and boats of the Vietnamese refugee fishermen population along the Gulf Coast in the late 1970s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
The glass ceiling disproportionately affects women and minorities. The Asian American equivalent, the bamboo ceiling, is where individuals may be able to get into the workforce but do not get these.
What are promotions or leadership positions?
300
This has brought about an increase in violence towards Asian American communities after phrases like the "China virus" caused additional Anti-Asian violence and hate. It also saw the Black Lives Matter movement take root all across the country to call attention to support for the Black community and upending unjust social systems.
What is the COVID pandemic?
300
Finish the quote: "__________ breeds empathy." The idea that existing in similar spaces and getting involved in communities that you would not otherwise think to be a part of creates compassion and understanding for one another.
What is proximity?
400
A California native, Henry Fuhrman was known as a linguist and editor for this news journal. His contributions to activism include arguing to drop the hyphen between ethnicities such as Asian American and African American.
What is the LA Times?
400
The Chinese Massacre of 1871 took place in Los Angeles where __% of the city's Chinatown was wiped out.
What is 10%?
400
The casual term for Asian individuals who navigate multiple racial identities and do not benefit from perceived whiteness due to being of mixed race.
What is Blasian?
400
This mural can be found in this state that is known for having being a shared space for Black and Asian folx.
What is California?
400
The act of expanding one's social justice efforts across various social identities. A way of acknowledging multiple marginalized identities that one singular person may fall into.
What is intersectionality?
500
In the 1980s, this Chinese American's death became the instigator of Asian American activism. The murder was compared to that of Emmett Till by Rev Jesse Jones who attended the funeral.
Who is Vincent Chin?
500
The Third World Liberation Front occurred in 1968-69 where BIPOC students went on strike demanding an increase in faculty of color and for courses about the contributions of BIPOC in this West Coast city known for its rolling hills.
What is San Francisco?
500
The untrue belief that holds Asian Americans to high standards and sets them as the example for other minorities to strive towards. This concept also discredits the large community of Asian Americans who are of low socio-economic status living in Chinatowns and working service and retail jobs.
What is the Model Myth Minority?
500
Asian x Black x Unity is a intersectional collaboration that brings communities together through food, fashion, cultural celebrations. It has taken root in this California city located along the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area
What is Oakland? 
500
This is the empowering statement Fannie Lou Hamer gave to advocate on behalf of all minority groups as a way to demonstrate solidarity. It is also one of Sam's favorites.
What is "Nobody's free until Everybody's Free"?