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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Filipino American UFW Members
As the United Farm Workers resumed strike activities against Delano’s table grape growers, Filipino American UFW members rejoined their union brothers and sisters on the picket lines. This image shows a select few Filipino American members of the UFW.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 1
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“No Filipinos Allowed”
Christine Araneta was an author of the first community textbook on the Asian American experience titled Sojourner for the Berkeley Unified School District. “No Filipinos Allowed” (1972) includes stories of the Manong Generation who endured anti-Filipino sentiments during the 1920s-1970s.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 1
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Filipino Farmworker Group Photo
Filipino farmworkers with their shared vehicle in 1943. Many Filipino farmworkers would take pictures in their best suits near their cars, despite their harsh working and living conditions, to show their families in the Philippines that they were doing well.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 1
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Filipino Strike Camp
A cook house and living quarter at the Filipino Strikers Camp in Kapaa, Kauai, 1925. Camp life was often without running water and electricity. Most of the upkeep of such living spaces were done by the Filipino farmworkers.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 1
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Our Pilipino Pioneers
Filipino farmworkers gather for a group photograph in the cabbage fields of the Salinas River Valley, Salinas, California, circa 1930s.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 1
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Chol Soo Lee Symposium at the UCLA School of Law
Chol Soo Lee, at a 2007 symposium at the UCLA School of Law. He told the audience, which included activists and the legal defense team who helped free him, “I’m not a hero. I’m just a human being.”
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San Quentin News
The San Quentin News, an incarcerated-produced newspaper based at San Quentin State Prison, prints 35,000 newspapers each month. It is supported by foundations and donations, and distributed to more than 30 state prisons and four juvenile facilities.
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Chol Soo Lee on Post-Release Struggle
In this video clip, Chol Soo Lee speaks passionately about his post-release struggle and urges the community to help support other formerly incarcerated Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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“Chol Soo Lee Severely Burned in House Fire”
A news article in the Japanese American newspaper, the Hokubei Mainichi, reports on the arson that severely injured Chol Soo Lee.
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Chol Soo Lee Approached by Media After His Release
Chol Soo Lee, pictured here facing the news media and a crowd of supporters in Stockton, California, confronted many difficulties adjusting to a “normal” life on the outside, after his release from prison in 1983.
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Free Chol Soo Lee Shirt
Chol Soo Lee brandishes a “Free Chol Soo Lee” T-shirt, at a 1986 party with activists in Los Angeles, California.
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Temple Visit After Release
Chol Soo Lee poses with supporters in Hawaiʻi, 1983.
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Chol Soo Lee Support Group
Chol Soo Lee, flanked by his supporters, following his release from prison in 1983.
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Chol Soo Lee Release Celebration
Chol Soo Lee celebrates his freedom at a party, where he and his supporters also watched the 1983 KCRA news documentary about his case, Perceptions: A Question of Justice, produced by Sandra Gin and Tom Nakashima.
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Chol Soo Lee Released
Chol Soo Lee beams at his supporters in Stockton, California, upon being released from prison on March 28, 1983.
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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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Supporters in San Francisco Courtroom
Supporters of Chol Soo Lee wait to enter the courtroom in San Francisco, 1982.
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Jeff Adachi at Free Chol Soo Lee Rally
Members of the Free Chol Soo Lee movement, including University of California, Berkeley, student activist Jeff Adachi (far right), protest outside San Quentin State prison, where Chol Soo Lee was on death row.
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Immigrant Convicted of Prison Murder
This March 13, 1979, Sacramento Union article reports the first-degree murder conviction of Chol Soo Lee that would eventually lead to a sentence of death in the gas chamber.
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Halmeoni Holding Sign
Two women, dressed in Korean traditional dresses, take part in a courthouse protest in Stockton, circa late 1970s.
