Luisa Moreno was an influential social and civil rights activist in the United States. As a Latin American woman in the U.S. during the...

In 1873, Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco, California to Chinese immigrant parents. Nine years later, the Chinese Exclusion Act was...

Chitto Harjo was part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation who led the Snake Rebellion. The Snake Rebellion was a resistance campaign that...

At the forefront of the labor movement in California, Dolores Huerta aimed to organize farm workers and fight for better working...

Saum Song Bo, a Chinese-American student, wrote a poignant essay in response to the fundraising campaign calling for donations to the...

Born Inshtatheamba, Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American to achieve her medical degree in the mid 1500s. At the age of...

Larry Itliong was a Filipino-American activist who lead the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a group mostly comprised of...

In 1884, an amendment was added to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which required Chinese laborers to obtain re-entry certificates if...

Chief Red Cloud, or Mahpiua-Luta, was the one of the key leaders of the Lakota people, a Sioux tribe that held land in the Great Sioux...

Throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, immigrant farmworkers continued to be treated unjustly. For example, the average wage of a grape picker...

The Chinese Exclusion Act had a ripple effect on some surrounding countries. After its passage in 1882, the U.S. government pressured the...

The United States government has a long history of moving Native Americans from their land and manipulating them into treaties that...

The Dawes Act was preceded by a long period of time of the United States government using laws and documents to remove Native Americans...

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed on May 8, 1882 and signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur. It was the first piece of...

As a result of World War II, Mexican and other migrant workers were brought in large numbers to the United States to boost wartime...