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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2023: AAPI HERITAGE MONTH 2023

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month May 2023

 

Welcome to McCarthy Library's 2023 LibGuide for the celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month!

In 1977, congressional lawmakers proposed bills for the creation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. After passing a law for a seven-day commemoration in 1978, Congress passed Public Law 102-450 in 1992, which annually designated May as Asian American/Pacific American Heritage Month.

The history of North America is shaped by the stories of immigrants from Asia and the Pacific and the native people of the Pacific Islands. While some of the earliest Asian immigrants arrived from China, Japan, India, and Korea, immigration reforms tied to U.S. civil rights legislation brought even more groups to the United States—such as Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Indonesians, the Hmong and other peoples from South and Central Asia.                                   

                                                                                                                                                              -Compiled by S. Meader

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