By Rashad Jacques ,deangelo, guevara, Rubens De

Ocampo & Anthony Velasco

Color code information

● Orange write down and remember

● Yellow is optional to write down

● Green is things you don’t need to write it down just keep your ears
open!!!!
Warm-up

If your familiar with the Asian American

Movement what happened in the 1960s to
70s what were they fighting for and if your
not familiar take a good educated guess ?
What is the Asian-American movement
● The Asian American movement was a social movement form asian
Americans immigrants and citizens fighting for equal rights through
politics
● The Asian American movement was initiated because of racism hiring
practices and being discriminated by the color of their skin or ethnicity
and many americans feared a belief called the yellow peril
What Started The Asian American Movement
● Before the 1960’s many things lead to the aam like the Chinese
exclusion act, japanese internment camps and more recently at the time
the Vietnam war
● The asian american movement was took on by the students activist and
stand point of this protest was for black (power) and aisan american
equality
Goals of the Movement

The goals of the

Asian-American movement
is to sought for greater
economic opportunities,
political, and social equality
Explain the major organization, leaders, and political action

The Asian-American movement organization

was founded in 1969 on the East Coast by
two longtime-leftist Nisei women, Kazu Iijima
and Minn Matsuda. This organization was
highly influenced by Black Power Movement
and the anti war movement, even much more
than the AAPA.
 Did the Asian American Movement Cause Any Change

Yes the asian american movement had an

outcome it opened up opportunities for the
Asian americans like teaching jobs for asian
americans music, community service
programs and etc. Also internment camps
was declared a mistake In 1977 by president
Gerald Ford. After world war 2 which Asain
Americans were freed and extended to
being freed they were offered or ordered an
apology from the government.
Video link
And here is some brief summaries about the movement or related to it.

https://youtu.be/Op5TpdXDqL0
Exit Ticket
What did you learn about the movement !!!!

Did the asian americans get the rights they fought for ?

Do you think it relates at all to black power or any other social movements ?

Did the Asian american movement have a great outcome true or false explain ?
Work cite page
Maeda, Daryl Joji. “The Asian American Movement.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 9 June 2016,
https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-21#:~:text=Th
e%20Asian%20American%20Movement%20was,institutions%20such%20as%20colleges%20and.

“Asian American Movement.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 May 2022,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American_movement.