Sat November 18, 2017
Presidio Book Club: Erika Lee + Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
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at Arguello
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From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The majority of newcomers came from China and Japan, but there were also immigrants from India, the Philippines, Korea, Russia, Mexico, and over seventy other countries. The stories of these immigrants and their experiences provides a more complete and complicated history of immigration to America.
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From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The majority of newcomers came from China and Japan, but there were also immigrants from India, the Philippines, Korea, Russia, Mexico, and over seventy other countries. The stories of these immigrants and their experiences provides a more complete and complicated history of immigration to America.
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Arguello
50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129
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