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Exhibit Promotional Statement

Remembering 1882:


Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act


In 1882 Congress passed the nation’s first immigration legislation – a law to prevent people of Chinese descent from entering the United States. This exhibit – produced by the Chinese Historical Society of America – explores the Exclusion Act from its origins, through its full repeal in 1968, the civil rights struggle of Chinese Americans, and the historic importance of habeas corpus in the Chinese American community.

 


A traveling exhibit, produced by the Chinese Historical Society of America.

Graphic image (right) copyright Chinese Historical Society of America. Used with permission.

The Chinese Historical Society of America

Remembering 1882 was produced by the Chinese Historical Society of America, and came to CSUEB in 2008-2009 as a traveling exhibit.

You may wish to visit or contact the CHSA regarding some of the other excellent exhibits they have created:
Chinese Historical Society of America Museum

965 Clay Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Full Exhibit Is Available Online!

If you are interested in the content of Remembering 1882:

~ The Chinese Historical Society of America maintains a fabulous online version of this exhibit at http://www.civilrightssuite.org/1882/

~ They also have an informational page on the exhibit production - its background and a partial list of where it has traveled: http://chsa.org/2007/10/remembering-1882/

Background on 6 Coordinated Exhibits

Six-in-One Exhibit Takes Over the Library!


As you can discern from elsewhere on this page, in 2008 the CSUEB Libraries invited 2 traveling exhibits and 4 CSUEB departmental players to participate in this unique festival centering on the Chinese Experience in California.

What is not so clear is that - at one point when all the exhibits were finally up - they seemed to overtake the library itself:

  • The Lower Mall was dedicated to the Immigration and Bay Area Asians panels, the traveling Remembering 1882 display, and the Asian Student Art Exhibit;
  • The Upper Mall was literally almost filled with the Anthropology-produced Ghosts of the Dam 10' panels and accompanying display cases;
  • Additionally on the Upper Mall, the Art Gallery's Stones & Bones display took over the Librarian's Alcove, and the Gateway to Gold Mountain free-standing panels took a footprint of 15' by 50' on the UM South Wall facing the Courtyard!

Hope you enjoy what you see!

- DA