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Chinese-Americans 1785-: Fighting for Equality

Actions Taken against Inequality

Chinese American Citizens Alliance. Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Retrieved May 2008, from http://www.cacanational.org/

Chinese Equal Rights League, United States, & Chinese Registration Act. (1892). The appeal of the Chinese Equal Rights League to the people of the United States for equality of manhood. New York: The League.

From spikes to spindles. Choy, C., Siegel, A., Bullard, L., Newsreel and Camera News, I. (Directors). (1976).[Video/DVD] New York, N.Y.: Camera News, Inc.

Who killed Vincent Chin? A film. Choy, C., Tajima, R. and Filmmakers Library (Directors). (1989).[Video/DVD] New York: Filmmakers Library.

Clausen, E. G., & Bermingham, J. (1982). Chinese and African professionals in California: A case study of equality and opportunity in the United States. Washington, D.C: University Press of America.

With silk wings - Asian-American women at work: 3. talking history. Ding, L., Hill, A. and Asian Women United of California (Directors). (1984).[Video/DVD] Asian Women United of California; National Asian American Telecommunications Association.

Ancestors in the Americas Chinese in the frontier West: an American story. Ding, L., Morita, P., and Center for Educational Telecommunications (Directors). (1998).[Video/DVD] Berkeley, Calif., USA: Center for Educational Telecommunications.

Chinese in the frontier West an American story. Ding, L., Morita, P., and Center for Educational Telecommunications (Directors). (2001).[Video/DVD] Berkeley, Calif: Center for Educational Telecommunications.

The struggle for equal education the Mamie tape case, et al. Ding, L., Tape, M. and Center for Educational Telecommunications (Directors). (2000).[Video/DVD] Berkeley, CA: Center for Educational Telecommunications.

Carved in silence. Lowe, F., Felicia Lowe Publications and Modern Educational Video Network (Directors). (1992).[Video/DVD] New York, NY: Modern Educational Video Network.

Lyman, E. (2007). The writing on the wall: Chinese-American immigrants' fight for equality: 1850-1943

McClain, C. J. (1984). The Chinese struggle for civil rights in nineteenth-century America: The first phase, 1850-1870. California: California Law Review.

McClain, C. J. (1994). In search of equality: The Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McClain, C. J., & NetLibrary, I. (1994). In search of equality the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America. 

Meltzer, M. (1980). The Chinese Americans (1st ed.). New York: Crowell.

Ancestors in the Americas Chinese in the Frontier West: An American story. Morita, P., Ding, L., and Center for Educational Telecommunications (Directors). (1997).[Video/DVD] Berkeley, Calif: Center for Educational Telecommunications, Inc.

Ng, F. (1992). Chinese Americans struggle for equality. Vero Beach, Fla.: Rourke Corp.

Powell, L. E., Oregon State University, Extension Service, Oregon State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon, et al. (1990). Asian Americans in Oregon: A portrait of diversity and challenge. Corvallis; Salem: Oregon State University Extension Service and Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station; Oregon Dept. of Education.

Wong, K. S., & Chan, S. (1998). Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Images from the Museum of Chinese-American Immigration