For the next 80 years, Chinese immigration was strictly limited, until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which was intended to remove racial discrimination. At Angel Island, immigration ...

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

Built to enforce laws that specifically excluded Chinese and other Asian immigrants from the country, the Angel Island Immigration Station turned away countless newcomers and deported thousands of ...

Ying Diao Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. (Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island ...

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Angel Island represents an important counterpoint to Ellis Island and the saga of American immigration history. Between 1910 and 1940, hopeful Chinese immigrants were detained at Angel Island where ...

It's easy to miss the poems carved into the walls of the immigration station on Angel Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. But if you look carefully, thousands of Chinese characters ...

He and California State Parks' staff, like Casey Dexter-Lee, are stewards of American history at the Angel Island Immigration Station ... was built to enforce the Chinese exclusion laws that ...

In fact, many of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants who arrived at ... of knowledge for community members to be aware of,” Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Executive Director Edward ...

"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 ...