Sunnyvale Voices - Growing up Asian in Sunnyvale
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
“Hi, my name is Mike Chow and I would like to tell you a little bit about my family and how difficult it was for my parents to immigrate into this country.” Mike details the difficulties his family encountered with the Chinese Exclusion Act and what it was like to grow up in Sunnyvale on a farm from the early 1950’s to the 1970’s.
This story was made possible through a Library Services & Technology grant from the California State Library. The goal of the Sunnyvale Voices project was to record and provide access to the early history of Sunnyvale as told by Sunnyvale residents. A compilation video of all stories recorded for this project, titled “Sunnyvale Voices: From Settlers to Silicon,” is available for checkout in the Library collection.
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