Explores the lives and treatment of Asian immigrants detained at Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco, California, during the early twentieth century. Includes translations of poems carved by detainees into the walls in Chinese script.
year: 2013
call number/section: 1000, 979.4, 325, 979, 325.73, 979.46
subjects: angel island (calif.), history, san francisco bay area (calif.), united states, asia, angel island immigration station (calif.), history
Editions
Freedman, Russell
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013)
Explores the lives and treatment of Asian immigrants detained at Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco, California, during the early twentieth century. Includes translations of poems carved by detainees into the walls in Chinese script.
Schools: 44
Freedman, Russell
Provides a portrait of Angel Island, which processed more than half a million immigrants between 1910 and 1940. Details the hardships many immigrants endured as they waited to be processed and includes black-and-white photographs.
Schools: 3