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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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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 4
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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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  • Compilation of five ink drawings. Portraits of Charles E. Whitney and Lafcadio Hearn, outdoor oven, vegetables grown on stilt house porch, gamblers.

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    Module 1: If You Want to Know What We Are

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Drawing of a woman and man in "Manilla Costumes": striped dress, shawl with umbrella and striped tunic, pants and straw hat, holding a chicken.

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    Module 2: Telling Stories with Objects

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Exhibit photo of a homemade gun from the Philippines. Wood carved handle with a long, narrow barrel and attached strap.

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    Module 3: Filipino Homemade Rifle

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Round military patch depicts a black volcano and a cloud of smoke with 3 yellow stars above against a yellow background.

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    Module 4: First Filipino Infantry Regiment Insignia

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Round pin with an illustrated grape cluster in the center and A.W.O.C. above and N.F.W.A below.

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    Module 5: Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) Pin

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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    Module 6: Nurse’s Cap

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Black jacket signed by Ruby Ibarra with lyrics from "Us" in gold lettering: "Island woman rise / walang makakatigil / BRWN WMN / Nothing on us"

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    Module 7: Ruby Ibarra’s Jacket

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Twelve people, standing in a row, carry four, large banners bearing the words "Decolonize Oceania, Free Guam" at outdoor festival in Guam.

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    Chapter Overview: Decolonization in the Pacific

    Kenneth Gofigan Kuper

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    Module 1: Overview

    Kenneth Gofigan Kuper

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    Decolonization in the Pacific
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