Civil Rights
The first law in the US to restrict the immigration of a specific ethnic group, which was not fully repealed until 1943.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The first Chinese American Hollywood movie star.
Who was Anna May Wong?
The grassroots sociopolitical movement based in anti-imperialism and racial solidarity that created a united Pan-Asian American identity.
What was the Asian American movement?
The first city to receive large-scale settlement of Chinese immigrants, due to the Gold Rush.
What is San Francisco?
What popular Chinese American food was actually invented in California, not China?
What are fortune cookies?
The year Asian immigrants were fully granted the ability to become naturalized citizens and vote.
What is 1952?
The young man whose murder in a hate crime inspired Asian Americans across the nation to organize politically (including our ACA founders).
Who was Vincent Chin?
The first state to mandate the teaching of Asian American History, in 2021.
What is Illinois?
What is New York City?
What 2022 film starring Michelle Yeoh swept the Oscars with 7 wins, including Best Picture?
What is Everything Everywhere All At Once?
An 1854 law that deemed Chinese testimony against White citizens in court to be inadmissible, which contributed to lack of justice for hate crimes.
What was People v. Hall?
The first Chinese American member of Congress, elected in 1959 as a Hawaiian senator.
Who was Hiram Fong?
The city in which 20,000 garment workers, mostly Chinese women, marched to demand better conditions and union contract renewals in 1982 and succeeded.
What is New York?
The location of an immigration station that inspected up to 1 million immigrants between 1910 and 1940, primarily from China.
What is Angel Island?
During Lunar New Year, children often receive red envelopes called hóngbāo. Traditionally, who gives them?
The landmark supreme court case that declared a “race-neutral” San Francisco law requiring laundry businesses obtain permits as discriminatory, as the city refused to grant Chinese owners permits.
What is Yick Wo v. Hopkins?
The world-class architect who designed the Louvre.
Who was I.M. Pei?
The oldest Chinese civil rights group in America, founded in 1895.
What is the Chinese American Citizens' Alliance (CACA)?
The province from which the majority of Chinese immigrants came from prior to the 1990s.
What is Guangdong?
This traditional birthday milestone is celebrated with longevity noodles and symbolizes a complete life cycle in Chinese culture.
What is a 60th Birthday?
The supreme court decision that failing to offer English language support to non-proficient students violated their civil rights, upon the 1971 integration of Asian and White schools in California.
What is Lau v. Nichols?
The particle physicist who worked on the Manhattan project, and whose experiment was stolen by her male colleagues for a Noble Prize.
Who was Chien-Shiung Wu?
The Bay Area student movement whose protests against Eurocentric curriculum led to the creation of Ethnic Studies programs nationwide.
The building for which LA's original Chinatown was demolished, still in use today.
What is Union Station?
This plant, whose name sounds like "wealth" in Cantonese, is a common Lunar New Year decoration in Chinese American households.
What is the kumquat tree?