1980s Garment Factory Footage

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This video is featured on our 1970s Wong Family virtual field trip.

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Associated Family Story Article

Learn about the Wong’s, a Chinese American family who lived in 103 Orchard Street in the 1970s.

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Teach about community action through a 1980’s video of a Chinatown garment factory.

Associated Virtual Field Trip

1970s Wong Family | The Wong family story features a Chinese American family and their 1970’s tenement home. Students learn about the push and pull factors of Chinese immigration and the long history of laws that restricted Asian immigration.

Themes: Complicating Stereotypes, Culture and Identity, Industrialization and Labor, Push and Pull Factors
Topics: Asian Immigration

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