"We’re hoping to become Americans too”

Dublin Core

Title

"We’re hoping to become Americans too”

Subject

Hawai’i
Japan
Migration
Integration

Description

This is an image in a newspaper of a group of Japanese people who were seeking American citizenship by entering Hawai’i. This was the hope of many Asian individuals who were seeking citizenship into the United States, even if the likelihood is that not many would earn it, especially after Exclusion Acts and the work of such people as the Asiatic Exclusion League (AEL)

Creator

Herbert Block, 1909-2001

Publisher

Library of Congress, Herbert Block Collection

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012634828/

Date

1957

Contributor

Siobhan Simmonds

Rights

Library of Congress, Herbert Block Collection, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012634828/

Language

English

Type

Visual - illustration

Identifier

20th century Hawai'i

Files

hoping to become Americans.png

Collection

Citation

Herbert Block, 1909-2001, “"We’re hoping to become Americans too”,” The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present, accessed April 28, 2024, https://theamericanpacificrim.omeka.net/items/show/278.