Lesson plans development: Lorraine Bader, Jieun Chai, Jennifer Louie, and Lorianna Wong

Poem recitations by Paul T.Y. Chang and Simon Hui

Additional resources provided by Erika Gee and The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Video Credits

Produced by the National Asian American Telecommunications Association in partnership with KQED Education Network at the James T. Yee Production Center

Executive Producer
Eddie Wong

Producer/Director/Editor
Donald Young

Co-Producer
Linda Chang

Narrator
Charlie Chin

English Voice of Poems
Donald Young

Chinese Voice of Poems
Simon Hui

Advisor
Jennie Lew

Associate Producer
Jim Choi
Sara Hossaini

Camera
Jim Choi
Josiah Hooper

Sound
Josiah Hooper
Sara Hossaini

Assistant Editor
Eugenia Chan
Jim Choi

Graphics
Eugenia Chan

Music
Tom Disher

Post-Production Audio
Disher Music & Sound

Post-Production Facilities
Bay Area Video Coalition

Special Thanks

Darci Moore
Erika Gee
The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Mike Hsieh
Lisa Nguyen
Karen Leong Clancy
Leslie Tang Schilling
Felicia Lowe
Mak Takahashi
Cris Huie
Casey Lee
Rich Winefield
Kathleen Acord
Lorraine Bader
Jieun Chai
Jennifer Louie

Major Funding for "Discovering Angel Island" and this site has been provided by:
Carlos and Vera Koo
Cecilia Lee, Committee of 100
Leslie Tang Schilling

Additional support has been provided by:
Ken and Pam Fong
Nancy Lee and Robert Ho
Carlos and Vera Koo

KQED thanks them for their generous support.

Research Sources

Adams, Michael C.C., The Best War Ever: America and World War II, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1994.

Daniels, Roger, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850

Daniels, Roger, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882, Hill & Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2004.

Jensen, Joan M., Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1988.

Macmillan, Margaret, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, 2003.

Roberts, J.M., Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901-2000, Viking Penguin, New York 1999.

Tindall, George Brown and David Emory Shi, America: A Narrative History, Volume II, Fifth Edition, W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1999.

Image Sources
We're grateful to the following resources for providing us with some of the images used on this site.