ANGEL ISLAND – Cold, damp barrack walls, weathered from years of neglect, stand as a reminder of the detainment center that housed thousands of Chinese during the early 1900s on this mountainous ...
Hundreds of heartfelt poems were carved into the walls by those detained at Angel Island's Immigration Station during an era when it was U.S. government policy to drastically limit the number of ...
“Leaving behind my writing brush and / removing my sword, I came to America. Who was to know two streams of tears would / flow upon arriving here?” (Poem 35). These were the words written by a Chinese ...
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