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First Asians arrive with the Spanish -
America Restricts Chinese from immigrating to America -
Riots ranging from Canada to the US. Damaging many bath houses and restaurants. An example is when a School Board in San Francisco passed a Japanese segregation law for schools -
Riots caused by Asian farmers and workers dancing with white women. No real leaders but just a bunch of angry white mobs. -
FDR signs an order for Japanese interment after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Due to the extreme distrust of any Asian during WW2. -
Vicki Draves was an Olympic Diver and Sammy Lee was also an Olympic diver. This is significant due to them being the world's first Asian Americans to bring home gold medals and it one of the many marks of the rise of Asian Americans in sports -
Dailp Singh is the first Asian American elected into Congress. The significance is that Asian Americans are now being elected to some of the highest powers in the US government -
Hiram Leong Fong is elected to the US Senate, just three years after Dalip Singh -
Ellison O. Onizuka is the first Asian American to space. -
Angela Perez Baraquio is the first Asian America to be crowned Miss America