This public dialogue will focus on the history of Asian immigration and labor in New Jersey from the Chinese laborers recruited to work in the Passaic Steam Laundry in Belleville, in the 1870s, to the Indian and Korean immigrants who remade Hudson and Bergen counties at the end of the twentieth century. Testimony and conversation will cover the livelihoods that Asian immigrants made in North Jersey, the struggles they faced, and the resistance and solidarity they demonstrated in asserting their rights as residents of the state.
Dialogue partners include AAPI New Jersey, The E Pluribus Unum Project, and the Jersey City Free Public Library: Five Corners Branch.
Image credits: Photo Courtesy of the Corky Lee Estate.