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Thien Dac Nguyen mopping floor, Seattle, February 18, 1976
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. In Washington State, hundreds of refugees were temporarily housed at Camp Murray, a National Guard…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.06
Date:1976
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Lan Van Nguyen working in kitchen at City Loan Pavilion, Seattle, February 19, 1976
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. In Washington State, hundreds of refugees were temporarily housed at Camp Murray, a National Guard…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.07
Date:1976
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Thui Dinh Bui waiting tables at City Loan Pavilion, February 19, 1976
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. In Washington State, hundreds of refugees were temporarily housed at Camp Murray, a National Guard…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.08
Date:1976
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Amerasian children arriving at Sea-Tac airport, February 1, 1983
On February 1, 1983, sixteen Vietnamese-American children and two adults passed through Sea-Tac airport en route from Ho Chi Minh City to new homes across the U.S., with two of the chldren remaining in the Puget Sound area. This was the third group of Amerasian children to land in Seattle, out of the thousands of children fathered by Americans in…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.01
Date:1983
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Binh Huynh with training diploma, Seattle, December 17, 1982
In 1982 the Asian Counseling and Referral Service in Seattle ran a 15-week vocational and language course to help Southeast Asian refugees in the Seattle area become more independent. Students took English class each morning, and a class in vocational skills each afternoon, to prepare them for employment as janitors or custodians. Here, Binh Huynh displays the diploma he received…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.02
Date:1982
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Bao Chao with South Vietnamese flag at Hing Hay Park, Seattle, May 1, 1982
On May 1, 1982, people who had been refugees from Vietnam marched in Hing Hay Park in Seattle's Chinatown - International District to protest Soviet involvement in Vietnam and El Salvador. The marchers carried signs and banners, and many also carried South Vietnamese flags. Here, 4-year old Bao Chao hands her flag to her father, George Dao, so she can…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.03
Date:1982
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Demonstrators marching at Hing Hay Park, Seattle, May 1, 1982
On May 1, 1982, people who had been refugees from Vietnam marched in Hing Hay Park in Seattle's Chinatown - International District to protest Soviet involvement in Vietnam and El Salvador. The marchers carried signs and banners, and many also carried South Vietnamese flags. Here, holding a flag, 11-year-old Hien Le rests on a bench while the protestors march around…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.04
Date:1982
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Dai Vu and his brother looking at family photo, Seattle, October 14, 1979
Ten-year-old Dai Vu, from Vietnam, arrived in the US in August 1979 with his father and two older siblings after living in a Malaysian refugee camp for 5 months. All of the family's money went into the boat passage for the four, and Dai's mother and younger siblings had to be left behind. In Seattle, Dai attended school at Lake…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.05
Date:1979
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Elma Villanueva at the Fremont Public Association Food Bank, August 2, 1989
In the summer of 1989, neighborhood food banks in Seattle experienced a severe shortage of supplies. Food donations usually lessen in the summer, and that year was especially bad because of an 81-day strike by grocery workers that ended on July 30. Grocery stores were less willing to donate, and striking workers began going to food banks themselves, which placed…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.01
Date:1989
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Tomás Villanueva at United Farm Workers office, Granger, May 3, 1989
Tomás Villanueva (1941-2014) was a labor activist who spent decades advocating for the rights and welfare of farmworkers, especially Latino migrant workers. Villanueva was born in Monterrey in northern Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. The Villanueva family settled in Toppenish, Washington in 1958 after traveling across the US following farm work for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.02
Date:1989