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Sergeant Morgan and wife “Blue,” pictured in LIFE magazine in 1951, were part of the second major wave of Korean immigration as American soldiers began relationships with Korean women, sometimes bringing them back to the United States and having multiracial children.

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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.

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