Historical June 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
St. Louisians with ethnic heritages reaching across the Pacific to China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Korea relate their unique histories in a new exhibition of photographs, “Golden Gateway: Asian Americans in St. Louis’?
The exhibit opens on Thursday, May 31 at the History Museum in the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park.
The exhibition is a cooperative effort of the Missouri Historical Society, KMOV Channel 4, A World of Difference, the St. Louis Center for International Relations and the International Institute.
The photographs will be on view through September 3. Though in number only a small segment of St. Louis area residents, Americans of Asian backgrounds enrich the community significantly with their cultural diversity. Descendants of Chinese immigrants who have lived in the United States for four generations have different concerns from Vietnamese and Laotians, who may still confront problems of language and employment.
The exhibit treats the specific history of the seven national groups as they made new lives for themselves in St. Louis.
The exhibition was produced in cooperation with members of the following groups: the St. Louis Chinese Society, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Korean American Society, the Vietnamese Buddhist Association of St. Louis, the Japanese American Citizens League, the Thai Association, the Laotian Mutual Aid Association and the St. Louis Refuge Resettlement Association.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1990.
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