Memorial
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Recurring Date Info:
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All Day
This is in observance and not an event on campus.
Contact:
Office of Diversity and Inclusion, diversity@unl.edu
The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks on the project were Chinese immigrants.