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2 stories matching wit
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- Ninety-Eight More Arrive — and Some Already Regret It
The Filipino Forum asks whether anything can stop the stream of young Filipinos crossing the Pacific for Seattle, even as new arrivals discover the hardship the papers warned them about.
- A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget
At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.