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The first law in the US to restrict the immigration of a specific ethnic group, which was not fully repealed until 1943.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?
In the 1970s, this movement created a new Pan-Asian identity that brought different Asian groups together.
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?
The 14th Amendment guarantees anyone born in the U.S. this.
What is citizenship?
The first Chinese American member of Congress, elected in 1959 as a Hawaiian senator.
Who was Hiram Fong?
Asian Americans joined together with Black, Latino, and Native students in the 1960s to demand this type of college program.
What is ethnic studies?
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?
This type of law unfairly targeted Chinese-owned laundries in San Francisco, leading to a Supreme Court case.
What were laundry permit laws?
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 first big wave of Chinese immigrants came to California during this 19th-century event.
What was the Gold Rush?
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?
This writer and author of the Joy Luck Club brought Chinese American family stories to mainstream literature.
Who is Amy Tan?
This national awareness month was created in the 1970s thanks to Asian American activists pushing for recognition of their history.
What is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)?
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?