William Deng holding a bottle of mango juice outside store, Seattle, 2001

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Image of William Deng holding a bottle of mango juice outside store, Seattle, 2001 — 2000.107.20010803.5.31

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William Deng holding a bottle of mango juice outside store, Seattle, 2001

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In August 2001, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that Washington state had gained more foreign residents in the past decade than in the previous thirty years combined. Sudan-born William Deng, 24, was one new Seattle resident. After his village was attacked, he and other children escaped across thousands of miles of desert and spent years in refugee camps before arriving in the United States. He and his compatriots were often called the “Lost Boys of Sudan.”

Here, Deng exits a shop on First Avenue South in the Pioneer Square area. He has just bought a bottle of mango juice which, he says, reminds him of his home in Sudan.

Caption information source: "The tide of foreign-born is now a flood" by Phuong Cat Le and Lise Olsen, Post-Intelligencer, August 6, 2001, p. 1

ID Number: 2000.107.20010803.5.31

Date: 2001

Creator(s): Haller, Grant M., Photographer

Physical Description: 1 negative : color ; 35 mm.

Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.20010803.5.31, photo by Grant M. Haller

Subjects: African Immigrants, Black/African American, Eating and Drinking, Immigration