Carlos Bulosan is a Filipino immigrant known for his semi-autobiography, America is in the Heart: A Personal History, which tells the...

Video Source: www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-american-wwii-veterans-honored-congressional-gold-medal-n1250767 Recognition On...

Filipino Love Stories is an exhibit put together by Cal Poly Ethnic Studies Professor Dr. Grace Yeh and her students. These stories speak...

Japanese Farmers (Photo Courtesy of Richard Waller Family Archives) The mark left by Japanese Americans can be seen all over the country,...

Before Pearl Harbor In 1918, Haruo Hayashi's father, Yeiji Hayashi, immigrated to the U.S. from Japan by going through South America and...

Protesting the death of George Floyd (Image Source here) History In the 1800s and 1900s, Asian immigrants working in the United States as...

Chinese Fire Company In the 1860s, the first wave of hard-working Chinese immigrants to Ventura showed up as laborers, laundrymen,...

Video Courtesy of Richard Waller Family Archives Story The Waller Seed Company's story begins over 100 years ago when Lionel Duncuff...

Nagano Family (Photo Courtesy of History Center of San Luis Obispo County) The Nagano family had been living in Morro Bay since 1917, but...

Overview In the mid-1800s, many Chinese people came to California in search of a better life, but also to help build their community....

Arroyo Grande sailor Felix Estibal served on the destroyer USS Walke; seen leaving Mare Island in San Francisco on its final voyage, in...

Asian Discrimination Many Filipinos fought in World War II, but regardless of whether they were serving the country or not, they faced...

"Gandy Dancers" Iron Road Pioneers Statue (Photo Courtesy of Emily Pan) The "Gandy Dancers" statue, located at the entrance to the San...

Expensive maple dressers, love seats, dining room sets, and bedsteads, all imported from Japan, filled the homes of many Japanese...

A True Immigrant Born in Japan in March of 1872, Umekichi Tanaka was a true immigrant, having landed in Mexico in the early 1900s. While...

Japanese American history is grossly underrepresented in the U.S., and the information taught is often skewed and misrepresented. Here...

How the Japanese Children's Home Started The Matsuura Family's story begins during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, similar to the...

Evidence from the Southern Pacific Railway Company and Howard Louis that the Chinese Built the San Luis Obispo railraods (Image Courtesy...

Timeline of Chinese History in California by San Luis Obispo Weekly Tribune (Image courtesy of History Center of San Luis Obispo County)...

Community reactions to Chinese Exclusion Bill (Image Courtesy of History center of San Luis Obispo County) That was how the community...