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  • Many children play inside of an airplane as flight attendants sit amongst them and assist them. The flight attendants adorn red dresses.

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    Flight Attendants playing with children during the first Operation Babylift

    World Airways flight attendants Carol Shabata (standing) and Valerie Witherspoon (kneeling) play with the Vietnamese orphans on the historic evacuation flight on April 2, 1975.

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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 3
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  • Quynh-Trang Nguyen sitting next to a large grandfather clock.

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    Quynh-Trang Nguyen

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  • A color photograph of a crowded wooden boat on calm water, carrying many people sitting and standing along the edges and on the deck. The passengers, including adults and children, are wearing casual clothing and appear to be waving or looking toward the camera. The boat is close to shore, and in the background, another larger ship is visible on the horizon.

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    Huy Tran on a boat

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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 3
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  • "Journal entry from a Viatnamese boat person refugee written in a red journal with blue ink. Left Page (French): À la recherche de la liberté fuyant un des régimes les plus inhumains dans l’histoire Right Page (English): Boat #2899 * Departure from Càmaŭ (VN) on June 17th, 1979 at 20:00 * Arrived at Song Ong Doc estuary at 04:00 June 17th; left SO Doc at 05:00 * Met with storm (rain, wind, very big waves) at 17:00 the same day * Came back to Poulo Obi (VN) Anxuyen (now Minh Hai) Province * Storm lasted for 4 days must stay on Poulo Obi * Methodically and scientifically robbed by VC Marine guarding the lighthouse"

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    Pocket diary of a Vietnamese refugee

    Read the following excerpt from Pocket Diary of a Vietnamese Boat Person Refugee from the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. The diary details an anonymous refugee’s boat journey beginning at 8:00 p.m. on June 17, 1979 from Cà Mau. This rare primary source object captures the experiences and feelings of an individual, but also sheds light on some of the first asylum countries’ roles in the refugee exodus.

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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 3
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  • Illustration of a bunk bed. On the top bunk, a little boy sits with his hands crossed. On the bottom bunk, a mother holds her child close to her and in the background a woman is changing her clothes.

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    Life in the camp

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  • A line graph titled "Vietnamese population in the U.S., 2000-2019" showing steady growth over four data points. The graph plots population estimates for Vietnamese Americans at 1,224,000 in 2000, 1,737,000 in 2010, 1,980,000 in 2015, and 2,183,000 in 2019. The y-axis ranges from 500,000 to 2.5 million, and each data point is marked with a green dot and labeled with its year and population figure. A note at the bottom explains the data sources and methodology.

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    Vietnamese population in the U.S., 2000-2019

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    Vietnamese American Experiences, Module 4
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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 CA

    A newly arrived South Vietnamese woman, just off an airliner and just arrived at Camp Pendleton, a sprawling Marine Corps Training camp, hangs her clothes out to air outside a quonset hut on the base, which will be her home until she is relocated. She and several hundred other refugees arrived here aboard chartered airliner and military craft as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces.

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  • Black-and-white photo of a marketplace with individuals walking around. Sign reads "Saigon Market."

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    The Saigon Market

    The Saigon Market, specializing in such Indochinese victuals as fish sauce, is in Clarendon’s “Mekong Delta.”

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  • A large group of white men gather round as Ku Klux Klan members set fire to a wooden boat with the words "VIET - CONG" painted on the side.

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    Klu Klux Klan Fighting for White Fisherman

    In this demonstration of support for White Galveston Bay fishermen at Santa Fe, Texas, Grand Dragon of the KKK Louis Bean (R) sets fire to a small boat. The rally was to show the public that the Klan supported fisherman’s rights and would fight to defend them against Vietnamese Shrimpers.

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    Van Le in Seadrift Seafood

    Van Le, who owns Seadrift Seafood along with her husband, inside of her processing room where Vietnamese women pick the meat from crabs and pack them in containers.

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