Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old black man, was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department...
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the city of Ferndale, Michigan, erected a milestone marker at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and 9 Mile Road in memorial of the killing of Chin. Chin's...
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subsidiary of East West Bancorp, Inc. It is the largest publicly traded bank headquartered in Southern California, ranking 42nd on the list of largest banks...
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The China Initiative was a program by the United States Department of Justice to prosecute perceived Chinese spies in American research and industry, in...
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Chinese Exclusion Act (redirect from Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882)
migrants. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese...
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Stop-and-frisk in New York City (category Government of New York City)
contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino; however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two...
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 Bellingham riots (1907) Killing of Vincent Chin (1982) Killing of Akai Gurley (2016)...
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and the On Leong Tong, would be involved in violent Tong wars for control of Chinatown during the early 1900s. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Hip Sings...
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The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 68–139...
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American Chinese cuisine (redirect from History of American Chinese cuisine)
southern province of Guangdong, often from the Toisan district of Toisan, the origin of most Chinese immigration before the closure of immigration from...
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local Teochew-speaking population. In 1996, Academy Award-winning (for The Killing Fields in 1985) Cambodian refugee, physician and actor, Haing S. Ngor,...
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municipalities with a critical mass of at least 1% of the total urban population; medium-sized cities with a critical mass of at least 1% of their total population;...
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Monterey Park, California (redirect from History of Monterey Park, California)
after a Chinese New Year celebration where twenty people were shot, killing eleven of them, and injuring nine others. The gunman, identified as 72-year-old...
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neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, along S. Wentworth Avenue between Cermak Road and W. 26th St. Over a third of Chicago's Chinese population resides...
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Chinatown, San Francisco (section Emergence of tourism)
Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable Chinese enclaves...
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connotations. It has been noted that the term differs from existing patterns of immigrant designation in American English. For example, Peter Thiel is considered...
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violations in 2015. Following an NYPD accidental killing of unarmed Pink Houses resident Akai Gurley in 2014, concerns were raised by city officials regarding...
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Detroit's urban decline and escalating street violence, in particular the killing of restaurateur Tommie Lee, led to the new location's demise, with the last...
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discusses Chinatowns in the Americas, urban areas with a large population of people of Chinese descent. The regions include: Canada, the United States, and...
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Chinatown, Washington, D.C. (redirect from Chinatown, District of Columbia)
historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants...
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Chinatown, Manhattan (category Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan)
west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere...
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Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned the naturalization and further immigration of people of Chinese descent. Amid discussions of "Yellow Peril", anti-Chinese...
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Chinese immigration to Hawaii (redirect from History of the Chinese in Hawaii)
of the state's population, most of whom (75%) are Cantonese people with ancestors from Zhongshan in Guangdong. This number does not include people of...
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Magnuson Act (redirect from Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943 (Manguson Act))
Repeal Act of 1943, also known as the Magnuson Act, was an immigration law proposed by US Representative (later Senator) Warren G. Magnuson of Washington...
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evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877. The ethnic violence which swept Chinatown resulted in four deaths and the destruction of more than...
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As of 2012, 21.4% of the population in San Francisco was of Chinese descent, and there were at least 150,000 Chinese American residents. The Chinese are...
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Chinatown bus lines (category Intercity bus companies of the United States)
killing 2 riders and injuring 32 more. June 23, 2008 – A bus loading passengers was struck by an out-of-control dump truck at the intersection of Canal...
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Chinese people in the New York City metropolitan area (redirect from History of the Chinese in New York City)
Ellen Yan; Corey Kilgannon (July 14, 2023). "Suspect Arrested in Serial Killings of Women Near Gilgo Beach". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2023...
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The Committee of 100 is a 501(c)(3) organization of Chinese Americans in business, government, academia and the arts whose stated aim is "to encourage...
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Wai Hing in 1938; the success of the bakery's strawberry cream cake, developed by his brother Lun, allowed him to be one of the first Asian Americans to...
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