AAPI Heritage Month was established to recognize and honor the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. However, the generations of Chinese who first arrived in this country in the 1850s, who helped build the transcontinental railroads in the 1860s, who fought in its wars, and continuing through the 1960s, were subjected to exclusion laws that denied them opportunities to achieve the “American Dream.”
Presenter Irving Moy will trace the hardships the Chinese had to endure using the example of Moy Chack Fong, his father. Irving will discuss his father’s immigration story, and the challenges ...