Yeah, yeah next American History tv visits San Franciscos chinatown to learn the history of the chinese in america. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Chinese Historical Society of america. My name is charlie chin. Im officially listed here as artists in residence, but i do double duty as a historian for a very simple reason as most of you know artists dont make any money whatsoever. But historians are underpaid so its actually a step up. Well we are going to do today is were going to take an overview of chinese American History. And for that well be doing two different sections one will be an inhouse docent tour. And the other will be a street tour. We will actually look at chinatown today. For your sake of general education i should point out that we are in a building. That was the Old Chinatown ywca. It was built in designed in 1932 by julia morgan. A very famous female architect who amongst other things was of course endorsed by the ywca for various and
Gold in, california in 1848. We have an unusual and remarkable situation here. Gold is discovered in 1848. And the reason why cantonese was amongst the first to hear about it, is that there already were some chinese here. News spread back to Southern China and in a flash thousands of men began to board ships to head for gumsan the Gold Mountain. Which california was known as then and still is known as the Gold Mountain . In the early days, very heady, very exciting. Much of the gold was placer gold surface gold. Theyve been washed down from the hills from the mountains for generations for millions of years. So it meant that you could literally find it on the surface. A man using a simple device like this a rocker. Could in fact just dig up mud pour water through it swish it out and find gold dust and gold nuggets. They are tails in the first year of men walking through a field looking for gold nuggets and filling their pockets with gold nuggets. They sound extreme and fabulous, but the
The style next we continue our look at the history of the chinese in america on a walking tour through the streets of San Franciscos chinatown. This is the third of threepart series with historian and storyteller charlie chin. Why would it be extremely difficult . For you to get a Fortune Cookie in the city of shanghai. They dont make them. They were invented here in San Francisco and golden gate park. By mr. Makoto hadjiwara and for reasons, which still astound me most americans assume theyre part of chinese cuisine and going to the Fortune Cookie factory will not. Be on our list of sites to visit it. I am sorry, please stop pouting back there. Youre way too old apart. We will not be stopping at the Fortune Cookie factory. All right, please join me outside. Here we go. Were going to look at several things. One of them is you see there is a most people here are going to be school teachers. Is that right . All right, the School Across the street is the gordon j lau elementary school. An
He talked about the impact of immigration and the covid 19. And the need for reform. As dean of the law school i get to do a lot of terrific things. A lot of fun things. And the introduction of todays guest that certainly ranks high among those. It is my great pleasure to introduce secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who serves as the secretary of the United States department of Homeland Security. He assumed his post three months ago, he has already been at the center of the number of decisions and events which hugely impact the lives of refugees and immigrants to United States. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is the first ever good and sir first latino to serve in his position. In addition to his decades of experience, in immigration and citizenship, it gives him an important view of the issues at the heart of this problem. Conversation with him, in just a moment. Secretary and his family fled the cuban revolution when he was a child. He and his family eventually settled in los angeles where he
For the study of intelligence where he was the deputy director. He began his career in the cia, it age s you if i say in 192772. After two years in the United States army, also with the u. S. Military command in vietnam. Since his retirement from cia he was also National Security and teaches at Georgetown School for service. He is also a founding Advisory Board member at the International Spy museum, here since the beginning. Hes the author of a new book, the foundation of the cia harry truman, the missouri gang and the origins of the cold war. Youre not here to listen to me talk, so, thanks, rick, for coming out. [ applause ] and thank you all for coming out when you could be over at the Christmas Market across the street. I appreciate that. As vince said, ive been a cia officer for running on to 50 years now. And for the last 20 years i taught intelligence courses at Georgetown School of foreign service. And in teaching there at georgetown, ive discovered as well as from participatin