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    Ballad of Chol Soo Lee

    This scene from the documentary film Free Chol Soo Lee features the protest song, “The Ballad of Chol Soo Lee,” produced by the Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee. The song is performed by Siu Wai Anderson, Sam Takimoto, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, Peter Yoshiro Horikoshi, Duke Santos, and Jeff Adachi.

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    Halmeoni holding sign

    Two women, dressed in Korean traditional dresses, take part in a courthouse protest in Stockton, circa late 1970s.

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    Korean immigrant guilty of fellow inmate’s murder

    This March 13, 1979, article in the Sacramento Union documents Chol Soo Lee’s “guilty” verdict in the prison-yard murder case.

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    Jeff Adachi at Free Chol Soo Lee Rally

    Members of the Free Chol Soo Lee movement, including University of California, Berkeley, student activist Jeff Adachi (far right), protest outside San Quentin State Prison, where Chol Soo Lee was on death row.

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    Supporter outside the courtroom

    Supporters of Chol Soo Lee wait to enter the courtroom in San Francisco, 1982.

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    Chol Soo Lee approached by media after his release

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    Chol Soo Lee release party

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    Chol Soo Lee support group, ca. 1980

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    Group photo at the temple

    Chol Soo Lee poses with supporters in Hawai‘i, 1983.

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    Free Chol Soo Lee shirt

    Chol Soo Lee brandishes a T-shirt made as part of the campaign to free him from prison, at a 1986 party with some of the activists in Los Angeles, California.

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    Module 2: The Vietnam-American War

    Thuy Vo Dang

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    Module 3: The Vietnamese Refugee Exodus

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    Module 4: Building Community in “Little Saigon”

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    Module 5: Politics and Remembrance in the Vietnamese American Community

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    Chapter Overview: The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights

    Mae Ngai

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    Module 1: That Chinese Girl

    Mae Ngai

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    Module 2: In-Between People

    Mae Ngai

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    Module 3: The World’s Fair

    Mae Ngai

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    Module 4: The Strange Career of a Chinese Interpreter

    Mae Ngai

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