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so well welcome everyone thank you for joining us tonight for our lecture series and my name is carrie young and i am sf heritage's communications and programs manager and so our all virtual series this year focus is on women in preservation to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment and we are pleased to continue our series tonight with a program focused in part on the women who shape the history of important asian pacific american historic sites in san francisco uh and quickly for those who are new to sf heritage we are a non-profit organization founded in 1971 with a mission to preserve and enhance san francisco's unique architectural and cultural identity and over the past five decades we've worked collaboratively with communities to save the city's historic built environment and cultural heritage assets we also help preserve and provide access to the 1886 haas lillianthalhouse a national historic landmark and the only single family residents of period open to the public in san francisco and starting tomorrow we're actually reopening the house for new reservation only flashlight tours uh and so you can visit us at sfheritage.org if you'd like to reserve your spot uh and so tonight i'm really pleased to introduce our host and moderator michelle magalong who is joining us all the way from the east coast thanks michelle she is a presidential postdoctoral fellow in historic preservation at the school of architecture planning and preservation at the university of maryland her research on social justice community of participation and historic preservation in asian american and pacific islander americans um oh i'm sorry uh she's drawn uh her work is drawn from her work as the president of the asian and pacific islander americans in historic preservation also apia hip for short and she received her man phd in urban planning from ucla and so michelle will briefly introduce our fantastic panel of speakers and our format in just a second but first i wanted to note that throughout the program everyone can submit their questions using the q a button along the bottom of the resume windows and once i get the live stream up on facebook those can those there can ask questions as well and so i'm going to hand it over to michelle thanks thanks carrie um first off let me move to the next line um first i would like to acknowledge that this virtual session is taking place throughout the unseated territory of the united states uh which is home to nearly 600 tribal nations and this event is hosted by san francisco heritage which is on unseated territory of the alone people so as i begin this session i acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of our various regions a land acknowledgement is a critical step towards working with native communities to secure meaningful partnership and inclusion in the stewardship and protection of their cultural resources and homelands so let's take a moment to honor these ancestral grounds we are collectively gathered upon and support the resilience and strength of all indigenous people who have been shown worldwide i am currently presenting online from my home in washington dc which is on the traditional unseated territory of the acostian piscataway people may we stand arm in arm with indigenous communities past present and future so i want to welcome everyone on to this session tonight with san francisco heritage i thank them for hosting um intersections of racism gender and historic preservation in san francisco's asian and pacific islander american communities again my name is michelle magang and i will be the moderator for tonight's um session so tonight we have five folks representing san francisco's diversity within the asian and pacific american um context uh we have ed tephworn from angel island immigration station erica g from the chinatown community development corporation and she is also a board member with api hip karen kai and grant din are also board members uh for api hip and then uh we have m.c kanlas who you've probably seen him as a fixture in somewhat philippines neighborhood um in the south of market and so each of these speakers today tonight will talk about places in the city that really talk about these intersections of racism race gender and historic preservation and just real quick about api hip api hip is a volunteer-led national non-profit organization that focuses on elevating local stories associated with asian and pacific islander american history and places and so san francisco is a very um important place for us our very first national forum in 2010 was held in san francisco and we held it again in san francisco in 2016. um and we've been um honored to partner with folks like san francisco heritage angel island immigration station chinatown on cdc and the by nihon center along with a few more other organizations and individuals throughout the city and so we wanted to highlight some of the places in the city um that you could potentially check out if you live in the city or nearby um social distance of course or you can go online and learn more um so without further ado um i would love to invite ed as our first speaker thanks so much carrie and michelle i really appreciate the invitation by san francisco heritage and asian pacific islander americans for historical preservation to be part of tonight's presentation it's an exciting time for us at the angel island immigration station foundation and part of that is because we have some very exciting news to share in that we're opening up the angel island immigration museum later this month in the former public hospital building but before i go further with my comments i do want to also acknowledge that angel island is part of the ancestral lands of the coast mi walks after the us took ownership of the islands in 1848 the government established a military base on the island and subsequently a quarantine station and with the passage of the chinese exclusion act of 1882 and other laws that essentially barred immigration from most asian and pacific islander countries the government wanted to have an immigration processing center to enforce these exclusionary immigration policies so from 1910 to 1940 over 500 000 immigrants were interrogated and detained at the former u.s immigration station at angel island next slide please unequal treatment of asian and pacific islanders was seen not there are special boards of inquiry which was just a benign word for grueling interrogation that was much shorter for europeans whereas for chinese detainees they were often asked hundreds upon hundreds of questions to verify their identity and we also know that for single women traveling alone they often had to somehow prove that they were not prostitutes nor were they likely to become a public charge or in other words a financial burden to the us government in terms of length of detention europeans typically spent only a few days in detention as opposed to chinese detainees who more typically spent weeks and months next slide please on this slide speaking of length of the tensions the image that you see on the left actually could you advance one more slide for me please michelle thank you the image that you see on the left is of quakshi a young 20 year old woman who emigrated from china she served the longest period of detention of any man or woman on angel island and during that time she was repeatedly interrogated denied access to a lawyer and survived a smallpox outbreak she was also isolated from her husband so her story is definitely one of trauma and persistence on the right hand side is tai liang schultz unlike the other women in my presentation tai was born in the u.s she took the civil service exam in 1910 and became the first chinese woman to work on angel island where she served as a translator for chinese detainees and after california and franchise women in 1911 she voted in the 1912 presidential primary becoming the first chinese woman to vote in the u.s and perhaps in the world if you can go back a slide michelle and on this image i just wanted to quickly tell the story of uh four other women who came through angel island often when people think of angel island they think only about the chinese detainees that were there but there's so many diverse stories that are part of angel island's complex history on the left-hand side we see ambrosia ravello who immigrated with her husband and at the time the us only allowed 50 persons a year from the philippines she happened to be number 17. like other married couples she and her husband were separated from another during their detention on the station and they were released after five days one person over we see hatsumi imigawa kumagai who came to the us as a japanese picture bride in other words her marriage to a japanese man was arranged via matchmaker who exchanged photographs between the prospective bride and groom in her case her parents arranged her marriage and her husband to be's family did not tell him about the marriage arrangements until hatsumi was released from the man from angel island and they were married the very next day next over we see maria lopez who witnessed her husband get brutally murdered right in front of her she and her infant son traveled to mexico from mexico to san francisco by boat and because she was pregnant with twins and her son at whooping cough they were seen as likely public charges and immigration officials planned to deport them according to her family she told a guard that she needed the best lawyer she could get and the guard jokingly replied to write to president woodrow wilson which she did and the family says that first lady edith wilson sent a telegram urging them to allow her in and finally on the right hand side we see rosa ginberg she and her parents fled nazi occupation in vienna in 1940 through shanghai she was one of hundreds of jewish refugees who pass through angel island and her granddaughter heather has written a musical about her grandmother's life so my last slide if you could just advance two slides please michelle is i just wanna end by saying that as we think about the intersection of racism gender and historic preservation i hope that we can move from a history of exclusion past separated integration towards more meaningful inclusion of all of our beautifully diverse histories thank you so i'm erica g and i work at the chinatown community development center which is a community development and affordable housing organization in san francisco's chinatown next slide so one of the things that chinatown has was in the past during the time of the angel island immigration station and continues to be is an immigrant gateway so you know many of our current immigrants from china are still coming to the area and chinatown is a place where they are making their first home to in the united states chinatown is a place where you can get local foods you can get a job not speaking fluent english it is a place where you are with your countrymen and so it has played this role throughout its history and continues today and the other aspect is that chinatown you know has many of the immigrants are low-income you know coming into the united states and so you know these services are very important for this new population next slide so for women coming to the united states in the early in the late 19th century in the early 20th century oftentimes they were coming to be married to other folks so because of the restrictions of the 1882 chinese exclusion act increasingly women were not allowed to you know come to the united states and some of the women who were coming were to get married to folks um the men who were here who weren't able to go back to china to you know marry and bring their wives if they didn't have a lot of money another aspect though was that sometimes you know women were trafficked in this case and they were um had to flee um sham marriages or abusive marriages or just really unfortunate domestic situations and this is gumboon which is called the oriental house and it was established in 1868 and it was a shelter education and vocational training and still continues to this day so it was also a place where if women were on their own they were studying or they were employed and maybe without a you know a husband or a family that they could live there and it would be low cost for them so in 1906 um this is not the original building or the original location this is 1940 washington but it was rebuilt in 1912 after the earthquake and this is a building designed by julia morgan it is one of three and we'll see another one of these buildings that julia morgan built designed in chinatown and you know one thing about oh the connection to chinatown cdc is that this is a certain non-profit service organization and what do they know about rehabbing and preserving a building and chinatown cbc with its housing expertise was able to provide some technical assistance and part of a 3.8 million dollar um from a seismic safety program which came from a city bond um provided the funds you know in order to make this seismically safe and bring it up to date and provide ada accessible making the building adh accessible next slide the next building is cameron house and cameron house is called cameron house after dandelina cameron and she was a she's originally from new zealand and she was part of the presbyterian church and one of her roles was to minister to the women of chinatown and she was also at angel island talking to the chinese women there she was considered the angel of angel island by many women who were there so after angel so for example um cameron house you know provided a home for for women who were escaping um say prostitution sweat stops or domestic service but also women who were first coming to the united states so my my cousin's grandmother she was pregnant at the time at angel island and they wouldn't just release her so she went to cameron house first and then she was able to have her baby um while she was staying at cameron house you know as her first part of her entry in into the united states and so you know this building is also designed by julia morgan it is it was built in 1908 some of the built bricks are the um they are leftover bricks from the previous building that they salvaged after the earthquake and fire and it continues to serve the changing needs of the individuals and families but at the time they sort of rescued girls taught them skills and it was in christian faith and you know it continues to serve the community with youth programs and other immigrant services and it's also san francisco landmark number 44. next slide so this last piece is a park um and it does have some historical um [Music] markers like it does have a robert louis stevenson monument that was dedicated to the city in 1897 as well as several other artwork public artworks that are there but portsmouth square serves as a key open space in in chinatown and it is set for a renovation project and this is the new design so this is not what it currently looks like but will look like in we hope less than 10 years it will have an extended expanded clubhouse it will have a new park it will have a larger area for gatherings and festivals and it will have more access um that will make the park more accessible so i encourage everybody who is from san francisco to um look at your ballot and prop a has it's a parks and recovery bond and it includes funding for parks such as portsmouth square in in this package so we encourage you to vote and also to support our parks thanks erica and next we have karen kai karen if you can on there great thanks okay thank you i'm presenting today the story about lost legacies one regained another still lost and others being rediscovered the ise women's building that you see here was the home of the japanese ywca it was a response to societal racism faced by japanese and other asian immigrants in the early 1900s today it is a symbol of community empowerment inspired by the legacy of our east se women for issei that's the first generation of japanese americans you say women the transition to life in america was difficult cultural and social isolation were common many barely knew the man in the picture to whom they had been married others were more fortunate and they had more stability and social support much of it coming through the japanese christian churches finding though that the white ywca did not allow girls of color to lodge or have full access to ywca facilities the ese women founded the first japanese ywca so that their communities women could find lodging and educational programs that would help them adapt to american life the ese women rented space for their programs but dreamed of having a building of their own in order to do this they had to evade the alien land law this law barred aliens ineligible for citizenship and that meant asians from owning real property the japanese ywca decided to create a land trust and ask the san francisco ywca to be the paper owner on the title deed but creating a property trust in favor of the japanese women japanese ywca leader yona abiko knew of these trusts through her husband kyotaro who had used the land trust device to establish japanese farming colonies in the sen in the central valley she and another board member of the san francisco ywca visited cutaro's attorney shortly before the san francisco ywca established such a trust in 1921 and this was a really courageous act by the san francisco ywca there were penalties for evading the land law that included arrest and imprisonment and a sheet of the property to the state it was a big deal after purchasing the 1830 sutter property in 1921 the japanese ywca was really able to grow and flourish and in 1932 they were able to open a new building designed and built for them by julia morgan during world war ii however the building was returned was actually put in trust by the women to the the uh san francisco ywca they wanted someone they could depend on to look after their property while they went off to well they didn't quite know where and were gone for the duration of the war but during the time the san francisco ywca leased the building to the american friends service committee and the friends were one of the most active groups providing assistance to japanese americans who were in the internment camps and so it was a very thoughtful and appropriate arrangement when they returned the japanese women were grateful to the friends who were still the main tenant of the building and so did not seek to reclaim the site and found that it was okay because the friends were open to having them be there and conduct their activities in the building the reception from the san francisco y was not welcoming however the returning women were told that they were not allowed to reform their organization because during the war the national ywca had implemented what was called an integration policy and this policy forbade the formation of new single race centers now of course this should not have applied to the japanese y because they were not a new organization but this was the position that they were put in solving the problem though the buchanan ymca stepped forward having gotten their building back they offered the japanese women a home for their organization and formed the first and it may have been the only joint ym ywca in the country the friends left the building in 1960 and the y moved its the mainline moved its programs into the building and rented space to others in 1985 nihomachi little friends preschool became the sole japanese organization housed in the building the japanese ywca and the work of the ise women had largely been forgotten in all the years through the war through redevelopment and all the political and social upheaval and change that had occurred between 1942 and 1985 but in 1996 community eyes turned to the building as the san francisco ywca announced that it would be selling it at market rate in order to meet their financial needs unable to find financing or community-based buyer the only glimmer of hope lay in the memories of community elders who thought they were called that the san francisco y had made promises that there would be an offset against the sale price for community contributions to the building's creation in hopes of finding this agreement a community organization was allowed to review the sfywca's minutes but instead they found the land trust they found in the ywca's minutes the language stating that they would hold the property in trust for the japanese women and girls there was hope then that faced with evidence from their own records as well as corroborating documentation the san francisco ywca would concede ownership of the building to the japanese american community and next slide please michelle the san francisco y's refusal to recognize the trust established by their predecessors led to community organizing and a lawsuit that lawsuit was settled in 2002 resulting in nihomachi little friends preschool becoming the owner of the building and in an unprecedented act of good faith by the organization they signed an agreement to also act as the steward of the building and the legacy of the isse women in the end the sfywca got the money it wanted but lost an important part of its legacy by reneging on the trust created by their predecessors nlf has a stable home that has allowed it to flourish and the japanese american community is rediscovering the history and legacy of its easte women ancestors and its connection to other communities in the western edition nlf has kept its promises to be the steward by caring for the building and working to preserve the east women's legacy and in the most recent example of that the japanese ywca was added to the national register of historic places this year and just yesterday the san francisco historic preservation commission initiating initiated landmark designation for the san francisco japanese ywca you say women's legacy building thank you thank you karen wonderful news also to kind of pull it all together such a wonderful story of the site so next we have grant den thanks a lot michelle uh next slide please there's a lot of text on here because there's a lot of history that i'm gonna try to cover in my five minutes uh joseph and mary tape challenged san francisco's white's only schools in 1884 when they tried to enroll their daughter mamie into spring valley school on union street mamie's in the middle of that photograph there mary's on the right but who are the tapes why would they take this bold step mary came to the u.s in 1868 at the age of 11 possibly as an orphan or sent to the u.s like many girls and young women from china as a muay thai a servant or possibly bound for prostitution as erica mentioned the roles of chinese women in early san francisco were pretty bad there were a few opportunities for chinese women in these early days and some of these young women had to clean and do chores at brothels others at private homes in the 1860 census there were fewer than 1 000 chinese women in san francisco and the listed occupation of over 90 of them was prostitute opportunities for these early chinese immigrant women were few so somehow this young girl escaped her life of servitude and ended up at the ladies protection and relief society which is located near vanessa avenue i believe uh outside of chinatown where she was taken care of by a miss mcgladrey and she became quite westernized and even became known as mary mclatery because there is no knowledge of what her chinese name was it was different than cameron house it didn't serve this ladies protection society did not serve a lot of chinese uh girls and women but it helped out mary so a man named jude dip was 12 when he came to the us in 1864 and went to work as a house servant for a man named matthew sterling who was a dairy rancher on van ness avenue he could believe cows in san francisco and eventually drop drove sterling's milk wagon which was a step up for the domestic work that he first did both jew and mary lived outside of chinatown and he met mary in 1875 when he was 23 and she was 18. they married within six months and for some reason took the name tape as their last name uh joseph's surname or judith surname of jew became his first name of joe or joseph and he began his own hauling and delivery business and also delivered chinese immigrants from the docks where they arrived to their new homes usually in chinatown so he's quite the entrepreneur the tapes lived for a while on vallejo street near octavia and had a child in 1876 who they named mamie and then three other children living in a mostly white neighborhood they mostly had white friends and felt a part of the overall san francisco community with the rights one would expect but in 1860 california had barred negroes of mongolians and indians quote unquote from public schools and many districts established segregated schools in 1870 the requirement of education of chinese children was dropped so if you were a chinese student in anywhere in california there was no guarantee of any education any chinese wishing to attend school in san francisco had to go to mission schools in chinatown in 1875 the san francisco school board voted to allow black students to allow schools with white students but most black students still attend segregated schools in 1884 just two years after the chinese exclusion act that ed mentioned the tapes tried to enroll mamie in spring valley school principal hurley refused her enrollment and the tape sued the school district in tape versus hurley and won at the lower court and when it was appealed they even won at the california supreme court the case guaranteed the right of children boarded chinese parents to public education however immediately the california legislature passed bills to establish a separate school system for chinese and other mongolian children this established the chinese primary school in san francisco originally mary tape wrote an angry letter to the school board saying her children would never attend such a segregated school addressing it to a mr mulder who i believe was school board president may you mr mulder never be persecuted like the way you have persecuted little mimi tape is it a disgrace to be born a chinese didn't god make us all what right have you to bar my children out of the school because she is chinese descendant maybe tate would never attend any of the chinese schools of your making never i will let the world see what justice there is when it is covered by the race prejudice men unfortunately the school board did not give in and maybe enrolled me mary enrolled mamie and her brother frank in the chinese public school it later became known as the oriental school when it started to enroll japanese and korean students now here's another example of the san francisco segregation affecting even greater than san francisco issues the japanese government strenuously objected to such segregation of japanese students and created an international incident at the same time anti-japanese forces were urging the united states government to curb the admission of japanese laborers gentlemen's agreement of 1907 resulted in allowed japanese students to attend schools with whites in san francisco but curb the immigration of japanese laborers so that was quite a trade-off those japanese men who are here could send for their families which resulted in picture marriages and picture brides coming to the us as ed also mentioned arranged marriages where families worked out uh these marriages which have already a tradition in japan only this time the women didn't get to meet the men before they sailed to the u.s by 1917 the government the u.s government set up an asiatic barred zone and by 1924 curved pretty much all immigration from asia and greatly reduced it from non-western europe next slide please so these are not the original buildings for spring valley on the left and the chinese primary school on the right but they are they were built after the earthquake and fire destroyed pretty much all of chinatown and most of eastern part of san francisco so on the left is the building first what's now called the spring valley science school and i've clipped the um text from the websites for both schools so you can see that both schools are paying great attention to their histories and i i didn't see any plaques when i went to the sites i didn't really look for them but you could see that the schools still tell that story on the right is gordon j lau elementary school that started as the chinese primary school then later was the oriental school then commodore stockton and finally today gordon j lau elementary and gordon now was the first chinese-american first elected chinese american supervisor in san francisco eventually the tapes frustrated that they couldn't get their children into integrated schools moved to berkeley in 1896 where there were integrated schools mary became an accomplished photographer and artist and joseph worked for southern pacific and was also a volunteer firefighter and the tapes lived a pretty prosperous middle-class existence they had a family ratchet hayward and a spread in ukiah but over time chinese children started attending white schools in san francisco after tape versus hurley even though it wasn't officially authorized california's law sanctioning segregated public schools were finally repealed in 1947 seven years before brown versus board of education so if you want to um know more about the tape story i really recommend reading may nye's book called the lucky ones and it tells the whole story of the tape family and i have one more slide it's not relevant at all to give my story but i just wanted to show this 1916 ad for uh housing development in the sunset and you can see uh it offers nothing but homes no flat stores apartments that are saloons no africans or asiatics so it's a sign of the times back then unfortunately and it wasn't until the 1940s that we could identify specific chinese families moving into the sunset chinese historical society had a really excellent exhibit about chinese in the sunset where this ad was taken and they did a lot of research for on this topic so thank you very much uh carrie and michelle and on to mc all right thanks grant and last but not least uh we have mca con lost i forgot to put the t at the end of your name and see i apologize um so if you can uh carry us home and see okay can you show the slide okay my name is mccannless i work with the soma pilipinas as a member of the history committee but i'm also part of the filipino american development foundation bayaniyan community center and some of pilipinas as you know was the among the first cultural heritage district that was adopted by the city in 2016 and then in 2017 one year later the state of california selected 14 uh cultural district city statewide and soma filipinas was among them so if you see this map the yellow colored areas is the boundary of soma philippines 2nd street brandon 11th and market and then the topic for today connected to the history that we're sharing is the victoria manalo dreadspark the one on the green and if you see the green note that's the current name biki manalo dreamspark but before that perhaps those who are familiar with san francisco that's the location of the bessie carmichael elementary school and then uh before that the former name of that particular two acres is called the columbia square park and the title of my presentation is from columbus square to bessie carmichael to victoria manalo a weaving of narratives of colonialism racism uh gender and historic preservations so we heard about the other stories so let's go to the place first okay next slide so victoria manalo perhaps not everybody knew who victoria manalo dreams i just read this one victoria manalo dre was the first asian american woman to win an olympic medal when she earned gold medals in three meter springboard and 10 meter platform diving competition at the 1948 olympics born in the south of market area to an english mother and a filipino father victoria manelo dreams attended the school adjacent to the site which later became the bessie carmichael elementary school victoria achieved her success despite facing discrimination early in her diving career her achievement continues to serve as an inspiration for all athletes interested in competition regardless of race greed and national origin okay let's go to the next so this is the face of uh uh biki in 2004 and in 2005 we uh officially uh moved the school to the bessie carmichael and then the park is named after her so this is her picture and the good thing about this one like i said it's uh weaving up a different narrative so it's important to share who victoria manalo dreams are dreams he was a product of mixed marriages we heard about exclusion we heard about discrimination before so experience were product of the anti-miscegenation uh laws during the time that was prevailing so i mean say mixed marriages is not acceptable during the time but because the filipinos were not classified in the mongolian terms so the marriage uh uh succeeded no the the parents but then later because there's anti-filipino during that time they exposed that the filipino should be included in the anti-miscegenation but then they cannot classify them as mongolian so they included when the when the a law was passed because of a certain filipino one in the court because it wasn't really a mongolian they classified them they included them ally malay race no as part of the uh part of the law in the mixed marriages and then the same time the situation is felt not only by the parents because the parents is a filipino and a british the the impact was on victoria because when he was learning the or joining the swimming team he wasn't accepted by the team because of their family name manalo so the father wasn't even approached by the codes which is asking the mother if they can use taylor as his family name to be included in the in the in the team because they don't like the filipino family name but then victoria didn't like that so what happened phil paterson and victoria formed their own separate cab in order to have a regular training in the fairmont uh uh sewing area so that's the situation but then in 194 uh during the war phil paterson left so victoria don't feel good being discriminated with the with the rest so he decided just to to work and and continued later it was uh introduced with the other coats which later became her husband graves but then he started competing and winning in the national competition again when they were about to select the u.s team he wasn't allowed because again he has a filipino last name so he married drapes so he became victoria manelo dreams so it means your ancestry your ethnicity is a big uh baggage during that time so it's really hard and then although she wasn't number one in the u.s team but then during the olympics he won the two two gold medals and she won so that's the discrimination she experienced but then in the in the u.s when he came back uh she was uh being recruited to play as jane of tarzan remember johnny was mueller was the diving champion also in the earlier olympic and then he became the symbol of tarzan but then they wanted her to be jane as you know in the movie jane is just a prop of tarzan because it's really a male oriented thing so but but victoria declined that uh offer okay but then there's another discrimination can we move to the second one so victoria was a student when principal jessica michael was handling the school for 25 years the franklin and lincoln grammar school that's the location and then that's in on 8th and harrison and then the ad on the 8th and harrison there's a park they call it columbia square park so that was the the park but then when the freeway 101 was uh to be built they need to demolish the school and then the school district didn't want to to put another school in south of market because the students are mostly poor people so they need to pass them to other school but then principal carmichael fought the school district and he argued that is it because there were poor you're not giving us the school so he fought until he retired and then in 1954 he finally won but then he passed away at the tier so when they opened they built the school in the columbia square park but then they didn't build it as a permanent school it's made of bungalow so it will only last for 50 years so that's why it's really ironic because the school district we heard about uh exclusion we the situation is this one so if you go to this uh park you will see the cannon no located in columbus square park let's go back to the next one so let's go to the next one so in columbia if you see this one in the in the park there was this cannon and this cannon was a wire price purchased by hers during the spanish-american war so if you go back in the history why are we not included in the mongolians exclusion act before because we're classified as u.s nationals so because we're u.s national we're not to be treated as a a person from another country like the chinese or the japanese that's why we don't have the exclusion act but then they also hated us that's why they need to include us so they need to put in 1934 that's why in the angel island report that in 1935 that was after 1934 they put the tithing's mcduffie low making the philippines as a as a nation with the commonwealth so therefore they come from a country so there's a court enough for immigration so they only have 50 per person that's why we have the person in the agent island so that's one we were we experienced exclusion just like the chinese but they not the same because we're u.s nationals and we're classified as us national so the end of this session is that like i said this is a weaving of different narratives so by going to that site you will see the colonialism as you know in the colonialism we were not even classified as a country so that's why they call it philippine insurgent uh war or insurgent rather than philippine american war it was only changed in 1998 so that's another narrative so the good thing now let's go to the end we have now some of pilipinas and some of pilipinas is now a district so we can tell our story we can put our heroes we can also claim our space so this is the space of empowerment in our community to provide us a new narrative of our history in america thank you thank you mc and what a wonderful way uh to actually pull together all of the speakers it is a weaving of stories as you heard um all of our speakers actually refer to each other which um was beautiful to see um and i also want to acknowledge in the last slide um that there were several filipino-american women who were you know who are being um shown throughout soma pilipinas and i just wanted to acknowledge as uh october is filipino american history month so you see here and uh i and uh you know this actually session um i i forgot to mention in the beginning along with other pines i wanted to um uh dedicate this session to dr don balon who was a key figure in san francisco and san francisco state um as a professor there so um we have a few more minutes left and i thank all our speakers um i'm glad i didn't have to mute you unlike this uh presidential debate what we are conflicting with so i think we have a few questions right um let's see um sorry let me see the q and a um what has helped the asian american community to overcome discrimination and racism anyone would like to take a stab at that that's a it's a big question i know i can start us often if others have anything to add up honestly on a personal level i don't think we've overcome discrimination and racism the very same racism and xenophobia that led to these exclusionary immigration policies that led to lynchings of asian americans back in the late 1800s those same feelings are surfacing today and we're seeing increasing rates of harassment and discrimination against asian americans and other immigrants i think what also contributes to some of this is that there is a model minority myth that exists where all asians are universally seen as being healthy wealthy and well-educated and that model minority myth unfortunately does not take into account the broad diversity of the 50 different ethnic groups that speak 100 different languages in the us and it actually also is used against us to make it seem like we're doing better than other racial ethnic minorities when we actually face very similar challenges and it's used to wedge us apart from these other communities that we actually should be an allyship with thank you and anyone else would like to answer that question i think a lot of the gains that we have made have been in coalition with other groups of color and organizing work especially 60s 70s and 80s were a time when uh with starting with examples of the third world student strike at sf state and uc berkeley people could work together in uh hand in hand and a lot of our gains were made that way wonderful and then you know also you know the asian american community has been you know challenging you know these you know the laws that have been discriminatory um you know throughout their time here so you know very tape challenging you know the segregated schools but also immigration who can become a citizen those were unequal treatment uh laundry ordinances those are all lawsuits brought by members of the community really kind of fighting for their rights so it's little-known history but it's um shows how you know the asian american community has used the legal system yeah in fact the law establishing birthright citizenship was from one can mark versus united states where wong took his case all the way to the supreme court and won the right for uh to be recognized as a u.s citizen because he was born here great um and i know we have a few minutes left and there's one other question that has come up uh what has brought each of you into uh studying history in historic places in asian communities and i know i'm going to pitch it that each of these speakers reach your hand if you're actually formally educated as like a history major or whatever erica is so erica actually i didn't know that um and erica is actually very well known um in terms of community development and affordable housing circles right and so um and i'm an urban planner um and so it's interesting that for you know i think then there's public health we have law we you know we we're all over in terms of our formal training um so i think it's interesting that each of us are you know we do work in in our historical like context of our communities and so what you know if you want to do real quick um one reference of what brought you to do the work you do now yeah i think if i can say my piece that the filipino narrative in the fabric of the u.s history should be asserted because we're always invisible in terms of history like for example we know about spanish-american war but they didn't know the philippine american war it was hidden and then just like with victoria manalo drives he was accepted in the international diving competition a hall of fame but in the bay area is not yet accepted it's not even included and then when when fred bus concilio was asking uh they said oh you should contribute so therefore it's another economic thing so if you're not on the table so you're not being considered and then the issue of segregation for school for example like for example the bessie carmichael they have the philippine education center the immersion program is not even supported by the district so you can say the discrimination is still there so we have to assert the the narrative so as a former historian and not former as a history teacher my role is to dig into research and also dig into what i call ethno-tourism so that people will get familiarized that the story i'm sharing is the story that people should also know thank you and see and i know we have two more minutes left um we have a few hands raised and some other questions so this is there's a lot and before we go to the to the questions um i just want to give a quick plug karen had mentioned that um the japanese ywca is being considered in san francisco at the local level for landmark designation another preservation and action um item call for action for support the california state historical resources commission is meeting on november 6th it's virtual um and there's the chinese shrimp camp um on the eastern edge of san francisco bay um that is being considered to be listed on the national register of historic places so you know if you want to put in a public comment or a letter of support you can visit the california um state historical resources commission website um and send an email to the california shippo state historic preservation office in that support we have so many questions and i don't know carrie can i just put in a plug for the japanese ywca building um the next hearing before the historic preservation commission will be on november 18th so if you can get any support materials in before then that would be great after that we'll go to the board of supervisors for two hearings and then ultimately to the mayor so we are hoping that we are on track for official landmark status in 2021 which will be the 100th anniversary of the purchase of the property for the building so please help us get to that point thanks carrie um we have a few more questions and i know i know the hour yeah there's there's such great questions yeah maybe we can ask you know one more question and then maybe like one or two people can answer i just it's uh there's some kind of touching on personal uh personal things which i really like uh so yeah actually one this is the question i had asked all the speakers um for you know those tuning in that may be in the city or nearby in the bay area um what is one what is your favorite like place in the city that's like an asian american landmark or historic place that you feel like people should check out either in person socially distanced or virtually to learn more about that you know many people may they go to the golden gate bridge right or coit tower where else can they go to see something just you know a really good you know place to just get some undiscovered um information well i'll plug the san francisco japan town we have a self-guided history walk that consists of a number of stops around japan town each stop is marked with a plaque that tells about the history there or a topic relating to community and culture and you can also um you used to at least be able to reach it online if you google san francisco japantown history walk and it's um it's a project i got to work on and i think it holds up very well over time and takes you to some wonderful places when it opens again i would strongly suggest going to angel island uh but also is yeah yeah no there's some beautiful places even on angel island if you get to go on a tour or walk by yourself to even go and see um the um poems that are etched on the walls um at angel island it's very i've seen pictures for you know since college and then i went two three years ago in prison for the first time and it's a it's a whole other feeling it elevates this you know this feeling um is as you get to i don't think you could put your hand on the etchings but you know you're so close to it that you can feel it um of like how long it took someone to to put that on the wall and how they chose you know uh what poem was out to be placed there so any other hidden gems erica i would point out our friends at the chinese historical society of america it is the third chinatown building designed by julia morgan when museums open up again they will be open to share about the history of chinese in america and the other one is the chinese cultural center which is in the hilton building and it was there it's there because the chinese american community really fought for a public benefit when um the hall of justice land was sold to a developer and so because it was so close to chinatown that it was so important for the chinese-american community to have a place where they could um have their culture exhibited and so those are two great resources that are in the chinatown community michelle if i can just do one more plug for you no bias whatsoever from my part but we are opening up our angel island immigration museum in the former public health services hospital building later this year and that building has never been open to the public so it's an exciting time for us what is exciting too i think about historic preservation in api communities getting to part of roslyn's question and alvin's question about existing institutional implicit racism is i think that there's a consciousness among all of us represented on this panel that we cannot be just asian and pacific islander advocates but we actually have to look to our brothers and sisters in other racial ethnic communities and other marginalized communities and we have to lean into our empathy and our allyship and by doing so i think that that's what begins to ensure that all of the different histories of injustices that our respective communities have endured get lift gets lifted up beautiful thank you ed i really appreciate that and i know we're five minutes over time so i bring it back to you yeah and i wanted to thank you ed for answering one of the questions that um i think i guess is a follow-up i'd i'd like all of you to answer um but just kind of what advice would you give young asian americans looking to preserve history in their respective cities um and eddie said just don't be afraid to speak up and you know you you know you see that your history is being overlooked so share it and i appreciate that and i'm sure everyone on this panel appreciates that they do that in all their work so uh yeah with that thank you so much again to everyone for your time uh michelle mc grant's karen erica and ed uh we will send some follow-up links with uh all this information to everyone who registered i will also make the recording available uh as well on essa purchases youtube page so keep a look out for that but um yeah i wanted to say thank you for sharing your time with us and i really encourage you to visit all the places mentioned today um you know on your next socially distance walk uh just get out there you know now with your renewed knowledge these places these special places and share them with everyone you know share them with people you know so thank you so much again for everyone to everyone so have a good night thanks gary thanks michelle thank you thank you