USEFUL LINKS
- Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) - Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) raises awareness of the experience of Immigration into America through the Pacific. AIISF collects and preserves the rich stories and personal journeys of thousands of immigrants, and shares them with visitors and everyone living in America through education initiatives and public programs.
- Angel Island: Li Keng Wong's Story - In 1933, seven-year-old Li Keng Wong's life changed. Her father decided to move his family from a small village in China to the Chinatown in Oakland, California. Now, Li Keng will tell you her story from 70 years ago.
- Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (PBS) - In the saga of American immigration, the Chinese experience is relatively unknown. But it's a dramatic story of struggle and triumph, progress and setbacks, discrimination and assimilation.
- Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems - Students explore the immigrant experience at Angel Island through the analysis of poetry written by immigrants during detention at the San Francisco Bay island.
- KQED Asian Education Initiative: Angel Island - Pacific Link, the KQED Asian Education Initiative, is a project of KQED Education Network (EdNet) designed to help educators and community audiences teach and learn about Asia and Asian America. Pacific Link works with schools and partnering organizations to bring relevant, focused content into the classroom, with an emphasis on accessible media and website resources.
- Poetic Waves: Angel Island - This website is based on true events of Chinese immigrants when they carved poetry into the walls while being detained from racial exclusion laws in the early 20th century.
- Angel Island: Immigration Journeys of Chinese Americans - Photographs and interviews of Chinese-American immigrants detained at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay document memories of perseverance amid racial discrimination.
- Chinese in California, 1850-1925 - This site illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter.
- The Chinese Exclusion Act - Contains an overview of the Chinese Exclusion Act along with a list links to primary and secondary sources.
- Angel Island: 'Guardian of the Western Gate - An overview of Angel Island.