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    Decades After Clashing With The Klan, A Thriving Vietnamese Community In Texas

    An National Public Radio (NPR) Weekend Edition story shares the history and current community formations of Vietnamese resettlement in Texas, offering a lens to view current sentiments toward immigrants.

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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 4
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  • A plastic bag with a red square that reads "ICEM" four times. Inside are chest X-rays of Viet refugees.

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    “ICEM” Plastic Bag

    These plastic bags held chest X-rays, part of the medical screening for tuberculosis that Vietnamese refugees underwent to prove that they were medically-cleared for resettlement, only to then expose themselves to health hazards in nail work.

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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 4
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  • A group of Vietnamese and white women pose for a class photo. In the top center is Vietnamese American Tippi Hedren.

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    Tippi Hedren with Graduating Nail Tech Refugee Class

    American actress Tippi Hedren (top center) with one of her graduating classes of Vietnamese refugee women learning to become nail technicians.

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  • A page from Người Việt Daily News with classified ads, small business ads, and community notices in Vietnamese.

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    First Issue of Người Việt Daily News (Page 1)

    The first issue of Người Việt Daily News (c. 1978). The Vietnamese-language newspaper started out of Yến Ngọc Đỗ’s home in Garden Grove, California, near the center of Orange County’s Little Saigon.

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  • Four women smiling and talking stand behind a cashier counter in a pharmacy. A man stands to the right looking at the camera.

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    Danh’s Pharmacy

    Danh’s Pharmacy in Orange County’s Little Saigon (c. 1980s). Before the US and Vietnam normalized trade and diplomatic relations, Vietnamese Americans depended on businesses such as Danh’s Pharmacy to ship care packages to their families in Vietnam.

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  • Vietnamese American Van Le standing in a seafood processing room. Behind are women packing crab meat into containers.

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    Van Le in Seadrift Seafood

    Van Le (center) and her husband own a seafood business named Seadrift Seafood. Vietnamese refugees drawn to the fishing business resettled along the Gulf Coast of Texas and formed new communities.

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  • A crowd of white Americans gather around a wooden boat set on fire by a Ku Klux Klan member. "Viet-Cong" is painted on the side of the boat.

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    Ku Klux Klan Set “Viet-Cong” Boat Ablaze

    Louis Beam (right), Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, sets fire to a boat labeled “Viet-Cong” during a rally for white Texas Gulf fisherman in Santa Fe, Texas in 1981.

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  • This Washington Post clipping shows an image of Saigon Market. A Vietnamese family walks past the storefront.

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    Little Saigon in Arlington County, Virginia

    This 1979 clipping from the Washington Post documents the history of Little Saigon in the Clarendon neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia.

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  • Black-and-white photo of a woman hunched over in the grass holding a bag and some papers. Above her, clothes dry on a clothesline.

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    Vietnamese Refugee Settles in California

    Many Vietnamese refugees temporarily housed at Camp Pendleton went on to resettle about sixty miles north in Orange County, California. Today, Orange County is home to the largest Little Saigon in the United States.

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  • A graph titled "Vietnamese population in the U.S., 2009 - 2019" shows growth over four green data points. The note below explains the methodology.

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    Vietnamese Population in the U.S., 2000-2019

    Vietnamese population in the US, 2000–2019 by the Pew Research Center.

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    Chapter Overview: Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers

    Lauren Daus, Catherine De Guzman, Rudy Guevarra Jr., Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Mark Pulliodo, Robyn Rodriguez, Gayle Romasanta, Stacey Salinas, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

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    Module 1: Overview: Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers

    Rudy Guevarra Jr., Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, and Lauren Daus

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  • Larry Itliong, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Assistant Director speaking at unknown event.

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    Module 2: Larry Itliong

    Gayle Romasanta

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    Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • Four picketers with their arms raised, wavie red flags. They stand just off a dirt road on a farm.

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    Module 3: Filipinas in the Filipino Farmworker Movement

    Stacy Salinas

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • 1973 edition and 2014 edition of Carlos Bulosan's book 'America Is in the Heart.'

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    Module 4: The Life and Legacy of Carlos Bulosan

    Catherine De Guzman and Robyn Rodriguez

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    Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • Filipino farmworkers pose for a group photo.

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    Module 5: Philip Vera Cruz

    Mark Pullido

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    Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • Political cartoon with the metaphorical leg of California kicking a Chinese man out into the Pacific Ocean. Text above reads "The Chinese Must Go!"

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    Asian Exclusion: “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”

    Russell Jeung

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  • An identification photo of Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese man, from an Immigration Service affidavit, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing.

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    Module 1: Overview

    Russell Jeung

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    Asian Exclusion: “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”
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  • Political cartoon with the metaphorical leg of California kicking a Chinese man out into the Pacific Ocean. Text above reads "The Chinese Must Go!"

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    Module 2: Restriction and Exclusion from Migration

    Russell Jeung

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    Asian Exclusion: “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”
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