Documenting the Asian American Movement
Clip: 5/13/2024 | 1m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Corky Lee’s rare images of the Asian American Movement on the East Coast in the 1970s.
Corky Lee’s rare images of the fight for justice, equality, and identity in the Asian American Pacific Islander communities on the East Coast in the 1970s reveal the foundation for AAPI civil rights struggles to follow over the next five decades.
Documenting the Asian American Movement
Clip: 5/13/2024 | 1m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Corky Lee’s rare images of the fight for justice, equality, and identity in the Asian American Pacific Islander communities on the East Coast in the 1970s reveal the foundation for AAPI civil rights struggles to follow over the next five decades.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ We are the children of the migrant worker ♪ ♪ We are the offspring of the concentration camp ♪ ♪ Sons and daughters of the railroad builder ♪ ♪ Who leave their stamp on America ♪ - Chinatown in the '70s was a really happening place.
I lived in sort of a commune with about eight people.
We formed something called Asian Media Collective, AMC.
The purpose of Asian Media Collective pretty much was to document and disseminate what was, you know, taking place within the Asian American movement as it pertains to New York or the East Coast.
♪ Sing a song for ourselves ♪ - [Narrator] Asian American movement got started in direct response to the Black Civil Rights Movement of the '60s.
How to organize, how to rally people, fighting for identity, equality, equal pay, equal rights.
♪ We got the right to choose ♪ ♪ We got the right to choose ♪
Chinatown Rises Up to Unite Against Police Brutality
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Lee’s iconic photo put a protest against police brutality on the front page of the Post. (1m 38s)
Corky Lee’s Life, Legacy, and Quest for Photographic Justice
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The importance of the life, art, and activism of Chinese American photographer Corky Lee. (3m 2s)
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