CHSA Remembering1882

“It is impossible to preserve the integrity of a government like ours if we deny to any class in our community the equal protection of the laws.” — Patrick J. Healy and Ng Poon Chew, 1905, “A Statement for Non-Exclusion” On the 125th Anniversary of the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Chinese Historical Society of America’s Remembering 1882 project combines a traveling exhibit, a museum theater performance, and a symposium of legal and historical experts. REMEMBERING 1882 TRAvELING ExHIBIT Drawn from photographs, newspaper commentaries, political cartoons, and other objects from the archives of the Chinese Historical Society of America, CHSA’s Remembering 1882 exhibit provides a flavor for the intrigue, passion and poignancy of this dramatic chapter in American history. Launched in San Francisco at the Phillip Burton Federal Building, Northern California District Court, 450 Golden Gate, 19th Floor (May 1-11) and the James R. Browning Courthouse, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 95 Seventh Street, 1st Floor (May 14-31), on the 125th year since the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The nation’s first major immigration legislation, the Chinese Exclusion Act defined U.S. borders, and legislated against the entry of people of Chinese descent. The Chinese Exclusion Act would only be finally repealed in 1968. REMEMBERING 1882: 125TH ANNIvERSARY SYMPOSIuM An exploration of the impacts and legacies of the Exclusion laws featuring Justice Harry Low, Attorney Michael Lee, Law Professor Bill Ong Hing, Immigration Attorney Donald Ungar, and Historian Connie Young Yu. Presented by the Chinese Historical Society of America and the Historical Society for the Northern District of California View articles, video, and historical documents online at http://Remembering1882.org Join the discussion at http://CivilRightsSuite.org Connie Young Yu’s “Up Against the Law” originally appeared as “The Chinese in the American Courts” in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 4 No. 3, special issue editors Victor and Brett Nee, Connie Young Yu, and Shawn Hsu Wong, 1972. Used with permission. The Remembering 1882 title image is based on an Arnold Genthe photo courtesy Library of Congress and John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown, NY: Dover, 1984. Art direction and design © 2007 Jeff Mellin, Big Blue Ox Graphic Art (www.BigBlueOx.net) © 2007 Chinese Historical Society of America ISBN: 978-1-885864-34-5 (NAPABA edition) Print copies are available for $5 plus shipping from http://chsa.org, or through the museum’s bookstore, San Francisco.