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The 1882 Foundation promotes public awareness of the history and continuing significance of the Chinese Exclusion Laws.  These laws were first enacted in 1882.  They prohibited Chinese from immigrating to the United States and barred them from citizenship.  In 1943, Congress rescinded the laws for political military reasons.  There was no acknowledgment of six decades of federally sanctioned violations of civil rights, racial discrimination’s or violent attacks to generations Chinese in America.Not until 2011 and 2012, after the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, Committee of 100, Japanese American Citizens League, National Council of Chinese Americans, OCA-Asian American Advocates, and Covington and Burling LLP joined together in a national effort, did Congress admit wrong and condemn the laws.  The successful passage of unanimous Senate and House resolutions (introduced by Senator Scott Brown and Representative Judy Chu) reaffirmed Congress’s responsibility to protect the civil rights of all people in the United States.  It has set the stage for a Presidential Statement of Apology.While that goal is being pursued, the 1882 Foundation continues to broaden public understanding of the laws, their history and relevance today.  It does this through programs and supporting projects that preserve and interpret the history of Chinese in America about their contributions in forming and enriching the American nation.

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Join us for a poetry workshop led by the D. SEA Writers Collective!

508 I St NW

Join us for a poetry workshop led by the D. SEA Writers Collective! Please bring any pieces you are currently working on and would like feedback, or come with a blank page to get some inspiration! Our theme? Reflecting on Asian Americans during America’s 250th anniversary.

D. SEA Writers CollectiveDan Hong, Nico Penaranda, Dylan Tran, and Pacyinz Lyfoung are Southeast Asian American poets from Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines, bearing the cultural heritage of their Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, and Hmong ancestors. They have been reading together for over a year, and in 2026, they started to write together. They formed the D. SEA (Southeast Asian American) Writers Collective, a DC/DMV group. They revised and created poems to commemorate the quarter of a millenium anniversary of the USA, sharing the good, the bad, and other of their Southeast Asian American journeys.

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