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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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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 3: Being Indonesian American in Indonesia
Dorothy Fujita-Rony with Maya Soetoro
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Module 4: Being Indonesian American in the United States
Dorothy Fujita-Rony with Maya Soetoro
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Module 5: Lessons to Carry Forward
Dorothy Fujita-Rony with Maya Soetoro
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Chapter Overview: New York Chinatown’s Immigrant Garment Workers: Women in Action, 1970 – 2001
May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein
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Module 2: The Immigrant Women
May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein
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Module 3: The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)
May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein
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Module 4: The Strike
May Ying Chen and Rachel Berstein
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Module 5: Legacy
May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein
