Asian-Pacific Heritage Month 2008

Leadership, Diversity, Harmony: Gateway to Success

Resources for Asian Pacific Americans

HHS online events calendar
• Asian American History at PBS Online "Ancestors in the Americas"
Angel Island Immigration Station
Ask Asia a resource for students from the Asia Society, founded in 1956 by
John D. Rockefeller, III, to strengthen mutual understanding between the United States and Asia.
Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, CA
The Chinese Historical Society of America dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination of Chinese American history.
Children of the Camps: The Documentary to view historic timelines, photos, and program information from the PBS documentary on Japanese-American children interned during WWII.
The Chinese in California (1850 - 1925) from the Library of Congress Website.
Korean American Museum
Japanese American National Museum
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar from the Library of Congress
Asian Pacific American Heritage Association
Office of Minority Health Asian Pacific American Profile
White House Initiative for Asian Pacific Americans
• Learn more about the Japanese American leagues at the Nisei Baseball Research Project Website.
• CDC Podcasts Stopping the Silent Killer: Hepatitis B Among Asian Americans

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Japanese American child in an internment camp, circa 1940s
Joyce Yuki Nakamura, a Japanese American child in an internment camp at Manzanar, circa 1943. Photo credit: Ansel Adams; source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division