107 results for: Southeast Asian Immigrants
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Haircut ritual at Cambodian wedding, Seattle, June 30, 1989
For some young Cambodian refugees and their families in the U.S., having a traditional Cambodian wedding helped keep them connected to the culture of the war-torn homeland they left behind in the mid-1970s and 1980s. For Khung Sokunthea of Seattle and her groom, Hin Chanrotha of Sterling, VA, this meant a marriage arranged by their families and a daylong wedding…
ID Number:2000.107.031.02.09
Date:1989
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Alexander Chau, left, welcomes his family from Vietnam, Seattle, July 16, 1977
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. This image shows the Chau family in Seattle. From left: son Alexander, daughter Le Phuong,…
ID Number:2000.107.034.29.01
Date:1977
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Elaine Ko and Cindy Domingo speaking at press conference, Seattle, January 25, 1983
Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995 World…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.01
Date:1983
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Cindy Domingo and Terri Mast at press conference, September 6, 1990
Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV), the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.02
Date:1990
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Cindy Domingo and supporter after verdict in Marcos trial, Seattle, December 15, 1989
Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV), the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.03
Date:1989
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Students discussing Filipino American experience, Seattle, December 8, 1976
In this image Franklin High School students Lucita Villar, right, and Laarni Fernado, left, discuss with Eligio "Joey" Fernando IV, Laarni's brother and a Mercer Junior High School student, their experiences as the children of parents born in the Philippines. All three report their parents are alarmed watching their children becoming "too American." Caption information derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.062.03.03
Date:1976
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Hoang Xuan Thuy and family at Sea-Tac Airport, January 17, 1990
South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975. After ten years of negotiation between the Communist regime and the US government, the US agreed to accept some of the former South Vietnamese officials and military personnel who had spent years in North Vietnamese “reeducation” camps. Their families were allowed to come with them.Hoang Xuan Thu, a South…
ID Number:2000.107.089.21.01
Date:1990
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Huynh family waiting to greet family from Vietnam at Sea-Tac Airport, March 25, 1985
In April 1975, Phuoc Huynh and his wife Minh Chanh were among the thousands of Vietnamese people who fled the country at the end of the Vietnam War. Huynh had worked for the US Embassy in Saigon and feared persecution for his association with the South Vietnamese government and the US. Huynh and Chanh escaped to the US, but were…
ID Number:2000.107.095.05.01
Date:1985
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Minh Chanh and Phuoc Huynh at Cafe Loc, Seattle, September 20, 1978
In the 1970s, Vietnamese food was unfamiliar to most Americans. In Seattle, this began to change with the opening of several small Vietnamese restaurants. One of these, Café Loc, was located at 407 Broad Street, near Seattle Center. By 1978, the restaurant was doing well. Owner-cook Minh Chanh Huynh and her husband Phuoc Huynh had met in their native Vietnam,…
ID Number:2000.107.095.05.02
Date:1978
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Elaine Ko speaking at press conference, Seattle, August 5, 1982
Elaine Ko (b. 1954) is a community activist in Seattle who has worked for decades on behalf of the Asian and Pacific Islander community, immigrants, refugees, women, and victims of domestic violence in the Puget Sound area. In 2006, Ko succeeded Bob Santos as Executive Director of the Inter*Im Community Development Association in Seattle's Chinatown - International District (previously the…
ID Number:2000.107.107.16.01
Date:1982