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    Suspect Lineup

    Chol Soo Lee is no. 5 in this 1973 police lineup photo.

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    Chol Soo Lee Mugshot

    Chol Soo Lee’s 1974 prison mugshot.

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    Ranko Yamada working at Koreatown Weekly

    Ranko Yamada, in the newsroom of the Koreatown Weekly, 1979. Yamada befriended Chol Soo Lee about a year before his 1973 arrest for the Chinatown murder, and would become a leading figure in the movement to free him from prison.

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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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    Module 5: A Modern Chinese American Woman

    Mae Ngai

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    Chapter Overview: Samoans in the United States

    Lana Lopesi

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    Module 1: Overview: Samoans in the United States

    Lana Lopesi

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    Chapter Overview: Bangladeshi Americans

    Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed

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    Module 1: Bangladeshi Migration and Settlement in the US

    Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed

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    Module 2: Bangladeshi Americans and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

    Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, Nazli Kibria, Sharbari Ahmed

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    Chapter Overview: Chinese Americans and the Making of American History

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit Shelton

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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    Module 1: Overview

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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