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Angel Island Immigration Station, formerly the United States Immigration Station an Angel Island, was the principal immigration facility on the West Coast...
Information about the first Chinese immigrants to the United States is generally difficult to acquire...
In 1977 veteran geophysicist and seismologist Waverly Person became the fir black director of NEIC...
To combat insects such as lice, the Paiute and Shoshone of the Great Basin, washed their hair in a hot infusion...
Bessie Stringfield was the first Jamaican American woman to ride across the United States solo...
As the first Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong used her fame to challenge racism and stereotypes...
Carlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban American epidemiologist discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by mosquito...
The Tydings-McDuffie Act, also called the Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act, was a U.S. statute that provided for Philippine Independence...
Native Americans were known to have sunk pits into the ground to extract oil more than 400 years before Edwin Drake drilled and oil well in 1859...
In 1917, Eugene Bullard became the first and only black combat pilot to fly during WWI...
In 1821 21 black women met in New York to draw up plans for the African Dorcas Society...
Between 1881 and the beginning of WW I, the United States recruited over 250,000 workers from the Caribbean...
Far from being a dead or obscure language, Garifuna is a living, vibrant and growing language...
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable, born in St. Marc, Sainte-Dominique (now Haiti) was a black pioneer trader...
In addition to prospecting for gold in California, many Chinese also came as contract laborers to Hawaii...
In 1905 Twenty-nine black intellectuals and activist from fourteen states met near Niagara Falls, New York...
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson sign the Jones-Shafroth Act which made the residents of Puerto Rico American citizens...
On a 1,000-year-old pottery vessel found in Guatemala, a Maya man is shown smoking a roll of tobacco leaves tied with a string...
On April 18, 1975, less than two weeks before the fall of Saigon, President Ford authorized the entry of 130,000 refugees...
In 1933 Albert Ernest Forsythe and Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round trip transcontinental flight...
Recorded instances of Native American women taking contraceptives dates back to the 1700's...
The first Asian immigrants to come to the U.S. in significant numbers were the Chinese in the middle of the 19th century...
In 1916 The Lincoln Motion Picture company was the first movie company organized by black filmmakers...
In 1891 Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois was the first African American hospital owned and operated in the US...
Garrett Morgan, a brilliant inventor, and business man was the first to patent a 3-way automatic traffic signal...
In 1945 more than seven hundred enlisted members of the 6888th Women's Army Corps Battalion were sent to England...
In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only US law to prevent immigration and naturalization on the basis of race...
In 1880 The Pea Island, North Carolina Lifesaving Station was the first and only all black Coast Guard facility...
In 1895 W.E.B. Dubois was the first black to receive a doctorate from Harvard University...
Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first women of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...
In 1915 Frederick D Patterson was the first black man to build cars between 1915 - 1919...
Mirza Mohammad Ali was a famous Iranian American world traveler and political activists...
Because they were forbidden from integrating into mainstream society, the first Chinatown's were born out of necessity...
In 1962, the union leader and activist co-founded the first successful farm workers union...
In 1885 Mary Fields also known as "Stagecoach Mary", was the first African-American woman star route mail carrier...
Dalip Singh Saund made history in 1956 when he became the first Asian elected to Congress...
South Asian Indian immigrants also entered the United States as laborers, following Chinese exclusion Act of 1882...
Anandi Gopal Joshi was a pioneer who graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the class of 1886...