Immigrants -- Korea -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Korean American Leftists in the 1950s collection
Collection
Identifier: 3000
Abstract
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor from 1933 to 1940 and the U.S. Department of Justice from 1940 to 2003. This small collection comprises government documents from the INS as well as transcripts from the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) pertaining to suspected Communist connections amongst Koreans residing in the United States in the 1950s. The collection focuses primarily on Doo Sik Shynn, a North...
Dates:
1950-1961, 1988-1994
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Korean National Association in Hawaii and related lawsuits collection
Collection
Identifier: 3004
Abstract
By the year 1905 more than 7,000 Koreans populated the Territory of Hawaii. In 1909, the Korean National Association in Hawaii was established, along with a main headquarters in San Francisco, with a purpose for uniting all Koreans in the United States in a common cause. This small collection comprises lawsuits filed by the KNA and affiliated persons living in Hawaii between the period of 1915 and 1945, as well as some non-KNA related cases, unified by the struggle for political leadership...
Dates:
1915 - 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Sonia Sunoo papers
Collection
Identifier: 3023
Abstract
Sonia Shinn Sunoo was a Korean American teacher, researcher, and writer. This small collection consists primarily of Sunoo's oral history interview transcripts with early Korean immigrant picture brides (mail order brides). The collection also contains research materials regarding this topic in the form of correspondence, clippings, and notes.
Dates:
1971 - 1998
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library