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Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: April 19, 2024
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Our Chinatown 2024 Display | Additional Description:
Chinatown is home to more than 4,000 people who live, work, play, worship, and celebrate their lives here, and it is a cultural hub and beacon for all Asian Americans. Our community is one of the last remaining Chinatowns in the country, and our people remain resilient in spite of external threats. We have organized and defeated proposals to build a baseball stadium, prison, and two casinos here. Chinatown has lost a significant part of the area to projects like the Vine Street Expressway and the convention center, but we continue the struggle to Save Chinatown again and again.
To preserve Chinatown, a multigenerational, multilingual, and multi-ethnic coalition has organized to fight for our beloved community. Our fights can only be won when we learn our history and put people over profits. The Our Chinatown oral history project highlights stories and experiences of the people of Chinatown who make it irreplaceable, gathered by the next generation of youth leaders who are protecting the legacy and building the future Chinatown that we need.
Our Chinatown is dedicated to the life of Jeffrey Cheung, the login son of Linda Cheung, a Chinatown community member and advocate, and Tin Cheung. Jeffrey was a tremendous light to his family and friends and a treasured member of the Chinatown community. He left a legacy of love and care, and we will continue to preserve, protect, and build our Chinatown in his honor.
Submitted: April 20, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p785062
File Size: 7.922 Megabytes
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