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This page is a gateway to the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project resources for exploring the civil rights activism of Asian Americans in the Pacific Northwest. Included are special sections on Seattle's Asian American Movement, Filipino Cannery Unionism Across Three Generations 1930s-1980s, and Segregated Seattle; activist oral histories; research reports; newspaper reports covering The Filipino Forum: the founding years 1928-1930, The Internment of Japanese Americans as reported by Seattle Area Weekly Newspapers: A Seattle Ethnic Press Report, and Philippine-American Chronicle (Seattle: 1935-1936); photographic collections; maps; and historical documents. Oral histories are included for: Ron Chew, Doug Chin, Fred Cordova, Dorothy Cordova, David Della, Cindy Domingo, Lynn Domingo, Phil Hayasaka, Francisco Irigon, Sharon Maeda, Larry Matsuda, Bob Santos, Alan Sugiyama, Mike Tagama, Velma Veloria, and Michael Woo.
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Keywords

  1. Agricultural Laborers
  2. Alien Labor
  3. Asian Americans
  4. Canned Foods Industry
  5. Cannery Workers
  6. Cannery Workers And Farm Laborers Union. Local 7 (Seattle, Wash.)
  7. Chinese Americans
  8. Civil Rights
  9. Civil Rights Movements
  10. Civil Rights Workers
  11. Concentration Camps
  12. Covenants
  13. Covenants (Law)
  14. Detention Of Persons
  15. Discrimination
  16. Discrimination In Employment
  17. Discrimination In Housing
  18. Discrimination In Public Accommodations
  19. Discrimination In Restaurants
  20. Employees
  21. Employment
  22. Encumbrances (Law)
  23. Evacuation And Relocation, 1942 1945
  24. Filipino Americans
  25. Filipino Forum (Seattle, Wash.)
  26. Filipino Students
  27. Government
  28. History
  29. Housing Policy
  30. Immigrants
  31. Interracial Marriage
  32. Japanese
  33. Japanese American Citizens' League. Seattle Chapter
  34. Japanese Americans
  35. King County (Wash.)
  36. Labor
  37. Labor Disputes
  38. Labor Literature
  39. Labor Movement
  40. Labor Unions
  41. Law And Legislation
  42. Marriage Law
  43. Newspapers
  44. Political Activists
  45. Politics And Government
  46. Propaganda, Anti Japanese
  47. Race Relations
  48. Racial Discrimination
  49. Real Covenants
  50. Reparations
  51. Reparations For Historical Injustices
  52. Resettlement
  53. Right To Housing
  54. School Integration
  55. Seattle
  56. Seattle (Wash.)
  57. Segregation
  58. Segregation In Education
  59. Segregationists
  60. United States
  61. Washington (State)
  62. White Supremacy Movements
  63. World War, 1939 1945

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