584 results for: Asian American
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Bill Gates and Priscilla Wong at Minority Student Day at Microsoft, Redmond, October 26, 1995
Bill Gates and Paul Allen began working on microcomputers while still at Seattle’s Lakeside School. They founded Microsoft in 1975, and nearly a decade later, the company was recognized as the world's most powerful producer of microcomputer software. In the 1990s, a group of Black employees of Microsoft began holding an annual Minority Student Day program to encourage minority students…
ID Number:2000.107.19951026.4.35
Date:1995
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Quốc Nam choosing music for Saigon Radio, Seattle, August 21, 1996
Quốc Nam founded Saigon Radio in October 1993 as the first Vietnamese-language radio program in the Pacific Northwest. Nam was formerly a Vietnamese military officer, and he immigrated to the United States in 1976. He lived in Kansas City, Seattle, and San Jose and founded newspapers in each city. Nam moved back to Seattle in 1993 and launched Saigon Radio…
ID Number:2000.107.19960822.5.14
Date:1996
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Quốc Nam broadcasting for Saigon Radio, Seattle, August 21, 1996
Quốc Nam founded Saigon Radio in October 1993 as the first Vietnamese-language radio program in the Pacific Northwest. Nam was formerly a Vietnamese military officer, and he immigrated to the United States in 1976. He lived in Kansas City, Seattle, and San Jose and founded newspapers in each city. Nam moved back to Seattle in 1993 and launched Saigon Radio…
ID Number:2000.107.19960822.5.20
Date:1996
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Ssi Yun being sworn in at naturalization ceremony, Seattle, February 12, 1997
In the 1990s, federal welfare reform eliminated food stamps and disability payments for legal immigrants who had previously been covered. An estimated 11,000 Washingtonians lost disability payments, and about 38,000 lost access to food stamps. In response, many immigrants hurried to gain US citizenship in order to keep their benefits. In 1997, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) office in…
ID Number:2000.107.19970212.01.05
Date:1997
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Shoppers in the International District, Seattle, April 5, 1997
Seattle's Chinatown - International District (CID) has been home to Asian American communities since the late 1800s. The original Chinatown was located directly south of Pioneer Square, but was pushed east to the CID's current location by construction on 2nd Avenue in the 1920s. At this time, the CID was home to flourishing communities of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants…
ID Number:2000.107.19970405.2.28
Date:1997
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Ken Nakano, Jefferson Award Winner, Kirkland, April 7, 1997
In April 1997, a panel chose five Washingtonians to receive the state’s Jefferson Award. One of these was Ken Nakano, an American citizen who survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. Among other things, Nakano was nominated for his work on behalf of Pacific Northwest residents harmed by radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, his campaign for reparations for Japanese Americans…
ID Number:2000.107.19970407.7.13
Date:1997
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Harinder "Paul" Bains, with his son, Ikjot Bains, Seattle, June 21, 2002
Harinder "Paul" Bains and his two brothers Gurinder and Gagandeep immigrated to Washington from India in 1987, seeking freedom from religious persecution. The brothers settled in Okanogan, became US citizens, and started a gas station and gasoline transport business called Flying B. In 2000, they complained to oil company Arco alleging racial and religious discrimination while contracting with Arco. The…
ID Number:2000.107.20020621.CD02.001
Date:2002
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Steve Sakuma weighing strawberries during harvest at Sakuma Brothers Farms, Burlington, WA, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.001
Date:2002
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Jerry Mapes, Burlington, Washington, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.002
Date:2002
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Steve Sakuma with portrait of his grandparents and their children, Burlington, Washington, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.003
Date:2002