HistoryLink.Org articles on Urban Indians and Civil Rights

Note: These links were accurate when this page was created but they may have changed since then.

• Chinese Americans

  • Chinese Exclusion movement
  • Survey http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1057
  • White miners expel Chinese from Newcastle, 1876 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=219
  • White and Indian Hop pickers attack Chinese 1885 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2746
  • Tacoma
  • Expels Chinese 1885 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=4129
  • Passes reconcilation resolution 1993 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=4132
  • Seattle mob tries to expel Chinese, 1886 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2745
  • Seattle mayor elected on anti-Chinese platform, 1886 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2786
  • Renton petition against Chinese and Japanese, 1900 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1658
  • (broad community summary that basically ends with exclusion) http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2060
  • Liem Tuai appointed to city council 1969 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1233
  • Seattle Chinese Post founded 1982 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3376
  • Wing Luke
  • Life http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2047
  • Accidental death http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=717
  • International Districthttp://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1058
  • Kingdome history (and the movement against) http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2164

• Filipino Americans

  • Carlos Bulosan http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1214
  • Cannery Workers http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=411
  • Filipino history survey http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=409
  • Philippine Seattle Colonist founded, 1924 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3738
  • Jose Rizal Park
    • http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3168
    • http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1250
  • Filipinos exempted from WA Alien Land Law by courts in 1940 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=410
  • Filipino American Herald begins, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3708
  • Delores Sibonga
    • Admitted to bar 1973 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3727
    • Begins Filipino forum, 1977 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3706
    • Appointed city council, 1978 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1319
  • Domingo/ Viernes http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=412
  • Velma Veloria elected to state legislature, 1992 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1405

• Japanese Americans

• Community
• Japanese Language Newspapers http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3352
• General Historylink essay http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=231
• Japanese Farming essay http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=298
• Immigration http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=300
• Japanese American Courier http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3354
• JACL http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2922
• Community Leaders
• Gordon Hirabayashi
• http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2070
• http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3358
• James Sakamoto http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2050
• Seattle’s Internment Redress Movement
• JACL exhibition on internment starts redress movement 1970 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3635
• City Council passes internment redress ordinance http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3640
• Five 100+ year old Japanese in Seattle receive federal reparations for internment, 10/90 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3646
• Anti-Japanese politics
• Renton petition against Chinese and Japanese, 1900 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1658
• State supreme court denies Japanese graduate of UW Law citizenship because of race, therefore denied the bar, 1902 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2870
• Japanese immediately after pearl harbor http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1350
• Japanese American public school teachers pressured to resign 2/42 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3642
• City of Seattle fires all Japanese Americans, 3/42 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3637
• Internment
• http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=311
• http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=240