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All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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Chol Soo Lee in Front of a Mural
Chol Soo Lee, in a 1970s Polaroid.
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Chol Soo Lee Mug Shot
Chol Soo Lee’s teenage mugshot from 1969.
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Collection of Mugshots
This San Francisco Police Department mug book included Chol Soo Lee’s 1969 photo, taken when he was 16 years old. This was the photo picked out by witnesses of the 1973 Chinatown murder.
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Spine of Police Mugshot Book
A photograph of the San Francisco Police Department’s mug book, titled “Homicide Chinese Series,” shows a Fu Manchu-caricaturish drawing on its cover. Chol Soo Lee’s mugshot as a juvenile was in its pages.
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Maximum Security Cottage – Youth Guidance Center
Chol Soo Lee spent some of his teen years in juvenile hall in San Francisco, including at a maximum security cottage like this one.
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Chol Soo Lee Childhood Photo
Chol Soo Lee in an undated childhood photo.
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Chol Soo Lee With Mom and Sister
Chol Soo Lee with his mother and half-sister, in an undated photo.
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Chol Soo Lee Childhood Portrait
A childhood photo of Chol Soo Lee, taken in his native Korea.
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“Thinking of Home”
Chol Soo Lee typed this draft of his poem, “Thinking of Home,” dated 1979, and mailed it to K. W. Lee, who would grow into a life-changing figure in Chol Soo’s life. The poem recalls memories of his motherland, Korea.
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Memorial Altar for Chol Soo Lee
Chol Soo Lee died on Dec. 2, 2014, at the age of 62 from health complications related to his burn injuries. Many of those who had rallied to his side decades earlier attended his funeral on Dec. 9, 2014, in San Bruno, California, and laid flowers at this altar.
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Module 1: Overview
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 2: Chinese Immigration and Labor from the Gold Rush to the Golden Spike, 1849-1869
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 3: Chinese American Community Formation: The First Generation
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 4: Living in the Era of Chinese Exclusion
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 5: Becoming Chinese American: The Second Generation
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 7: Chinese America Today
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
