A stone’s throw from Alcatraz sits Angel Island. For thirty years, this spot in San Francisco Bay held thousands of Asian ...

are poems written in Chinese, many of them made all the more impressive for having been carved into the wooden walls. More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration ...

At Angel Island, the foundation said the objective was to exclude many new arrivals, often under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Most of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants who arrived at Angel ...

The backstory "Most of it is inspired by the poetry, protest poetry, carved into the wooden walls of the Angel Island Immigration Center," said Graham ... a second-generation Chinese American.

“Border Surveillance: Places, People and Technology” will be featured at the Angel Island ... across from the immigration station, where hundreds of thousands of mostly Chinese immigrants ...

Angel Island, the immigration station on San Francisco Bay, opened in 1910 to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, is where two hundred fifty thousand Chinese immigrants were processed.

For a century, Angel Island was utilized by the military because of its strategic location defending the Golden Gate. Today, you can go there to catch some of the most scenic views in the Bay ...

Her training in Chinese classical and contemporary dance made leaping into ballet a steep challenge. In an excerpt that Oakland Ballet presented at Angel Island Immigration Station on a sunny ...

The Oakland Ballet Company premiered new work Saturday in the Town that speaks to an important debate happening right now: immigration. ‘Angel Island Project’ was performed at Oakland’s ...

Many people know Angel Island as a lovely spot to hike or picnic, unaware that it was the Ellis Island of the West Coast from 1910 to 1940, processing immigrants, particularly Chinese and other ...

but the ban lasted for more than 60 years and made it difficult for Chinese immigrants already here from finding jobs and from becoming American citizens.

"Most of it is inspired by the poetry, protest poetry, carved into the wooden walls of the Angel Island Immigration Center ... a second-generation Chinese American. Connection to the past ...