Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Celebrate With Your Library

May 1-31, 2022

“Advancing Leaders Through Collaboration“. This year’s theme is a continuation of the “Advancing Leaders” theme series which began in 2021. In 2022, “Advancing Leaders Through Collaboration” further highlights FAPAC’s efforts in advancing leaders in the Federal and DC governments.  

Collaboration involves two or more individuals, groups or organizations actively working together to accomplish a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration at its core, requires leadership. Collaboration improves team dynamics, enhances problem solving leading to increased innovation, process efficiency, improved communication, and ultimately overall success.

Stories from the Veterans History Project: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander American Veterans

Today there are more than 300,000 living Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander American veterans. The Library of Congress’s Veteran’s History Project honors those veterans who have shared their stories, veterans such as Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Jaden Kim, Kenje Ogata, Maginia Sajise Morales, Peter Young and Veasna Rouen. The digital collection Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke highlights additional stories from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. (Library of Congress).

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“The history of North America is shaped by the stories of immigrants from Asia and the Pacific and the native people of the Pacific Islands. While some of the earliest Asian immigrants arrived from China, Japan, India, and Korea, immigration reforms tied to U.S. civil rights legislation brought even more groups to the United States—such as Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Indonesians, the Hmong and other peoples from South and Central Asia.”-The National Park Service.

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Resources: Read more here | national parks celebrate | Telling All Americans’ Stories: Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage 

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