The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a long neglected California treasure - the Angel Island Immigration Station. Just like Ellis Island was the entry point for European immigrants to America, Angel Island was the entry point for hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants in the early 1900s, especially Chinese. Over the decades, the station was neglected and fell into disrepair. That changes this year. The Immigration Station is being restored this summer, and it couldn't have happened if not for one man who unveiled a long-forgotten secret.
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The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a long neglected California treasure - the Angel Island Immigration Station. Just like Ellis Island was the entry point for European immigrants to America, Angel Island was the entry point for hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants in the early 1900s, especially Chinese. Over the decades, the station was neglected and fell into disrepair. That changes this year. The Immigration Station is being restored this summer, and it couldn't have happened if not for one man who unveiled a long-forgotten secret.
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Review of Angel Island - Saving the Ellis Island of the WestThe story of discovering the hidden past of Angel Island - the incarceratioon of Chinese immigrants - is told very well by Hana Baba.
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Robert Fung
Posted on June 22, 2005 at 11:54 AM | Permalink
Review of Angel Island - Saving the Ellis Island of the West
The piece is certainly informative. More significant is its illumination on America. Race & racial issues along with the attendant histories is not limited to black & whites. NPR could use more pieces that highlight America's racial diversity.
The piece has something for everybody--students, children, historians, scholars, policymakers, poets, Chinese [and non-].
[please pardon the self-promoting---I'm one of the interviewees].