American? Angel Island Immigrant Voices

​Saturday, February 3, 2018 Richmond/Senator Milton Marks Branch, San Francisco Public Library 9 AM – 12

​TACT, Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University, Square and Circle Club, and San Francisco Public Library co-sponsored a highly successful event to a standing room only crowd.

​The Educator’s Hour included talks by Nick Bartel, Jeannie Woo, and Lorraine Dong about Angel Island, SF State APIA Biography Project, and Angel Island books respectively. 

​Guest Speaker Hong Mei Pang provided resources from Chinese for Affirmative Action.  Retired principal Sam Louie captivated the audience with a skit about his father who was detained on Angel Island. 

​Claudia Jeung and Anna Eng showed a stunning array of primary data, family photos, and written records for Square and Circle Club.

TACT members and SF State students helped children with kites, red envelope origami dogs, and paper bag suitcases.
 
Angel Island and Lunar New Year books were on display. Lonnie Chin and Nick Bartel donated many titles for teachers in attendance.
 
All participants received a flashdrive which included Angel Island PowerPoints for elementary and middle/senior high, Angel Island Detainee PowerPoint from SF State’s APIA Biography Project. Book and Resource lists, PDF selections from Chinese Americans Past and Present, Lunar New Year Activities, an updated version of Gordon Lew’s Red Envelope, and Sam Louie’s story of his family.  In addition to loading the flashdrives, TACT member Josephine Zhao has placed the information in a Google folder:
 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p5b7wK3xzdzFaMy1ktVoGAhrQ2xbcS1x
 
Members of the public were also invited to the event.  School Board Commissioner Emily Murase and District One Supervisor Sandy Fewer dropped by to address the crowd and to look at the exhibits and books.  The reviews from teachers, students, and the public were highly complimentary and enthusiastic.