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Angel Island gateway to Gold Mountain

A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it clos...

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Main Author: Freedman, Russell.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Clarion Books, c2013
Subjects:
Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Angel Island (Calif.) > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: 81 p. : illustrations ; 26 m.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-74) and index.
ISBN: 9780547903781 (hardcover)
0547903782 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Russell Freedman was born in San Francisco, California on October 11, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. After college, he served in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps during the Korean War. After his military service, he became a reporter and editor with the Associated Press. In 1956, he took a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he did publicity writing for television. In 1965, he became a full-time writer.

His first book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. He went on to publish more than 60 nonfiction titles for young readers including Immigrant Kids, Cowboys of the Old West, Indian Chiefs, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, Confucius: The Golden Rule, Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America, Vietnam: A History of the War, and The Sinking of the Vasa. He received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography and three Newbery Honors for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. He also received the Regina Medal, the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award, the Orbis Pictus Award, the Sibert Medal, a Sibert Honor, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the National Humanities Medal. He died on March 16, 2018 at the age of 88.

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