Manuscripts

Chinatown!

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Description: Six typed pages covering the history of Chinatown and the Chinese-Americans in Los Angeles. It ends with a call to meetings in Old Chinatown to help develop a plan for resettlement.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1935
Call number: mssSooHoo
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