THE ASIA SOCIETY

The Asia Society is a nonprofit that honors the contributions and acts of past generations of Asian-Americans. We wanted to share some of their stories, from a battalion of Japanese-Americans from WWII to a group of Chinese railroad workers that did the impossible.

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HEADLINE: Fighting the enemy was difficult, especially when you were mistaken for it.

HEADLINE: They helped build a country that didn't want them.

HEADLINE: To escape persecution, they had to endure more of it.