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Today I'm going to do something a little different. I wanted to share with you all my inspiration for starting CuriPow...

Angel Island Immigration Station, formerly the United States Immigration Station an Angel Island, was the principal immigration facility on the West Coast...

Information about the first Chinese immigrants to the United States is generally difficult to acquire...

In 1977 veteran geophysicist and seismologist Waverly Person became the fir black director of NEIC...

Albert Baez immigrated from Mexico to the United States when he was still a child...

In 1958 Ruth Carol Taylor became the first black flight attendant...

Lucy Parsons was an early socialist activist of color...

To combat insects such as lice, the Paiute and Shoshone of the Great Basin, washed their hair in a hot infusion...

Bessie Stringfield was the first Jamaican American woman to ride across the United States solo...

As the first Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong used her fame to challenge racism and stereotypes...

Carlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban American epidemiologist discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by mosquito...

The Tydings-McDuffie Act, also called the Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act, was a U.S. statute that provided for Philippine Independence...

Native Americans were known to have sunk pits into the ground to extract oil more than 400 years before Edwin Drake drilled and oil well in 1859...

In 1917, Eugene Bullard became the first and only black combat pilot to fly during WWI...

In 1898, Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese American, won a landmark Supreme Court case...

In 1821 21 black women met in New York to draw up plans for the African Dorcas Society...

In 1846 William Leidesdorff opened the first hotel in San Francisco...

In 1863, construction began on the transcontinental railroad-1,776 miles of tracks...

Though Scotsman Alexander Wood is credited with inventing the syringe in 1873...

Between 1881 and the beginning of WW I, the United States recruited over 250,000 workers from the Caribbean...

In 1897 The American Negro Academy was founded...

Far from being a dead or obscure language, Garifuna is a living, vibrant and growing language...

Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable, born in St. Marc, Sainte-Dominique (now Haiti) was a black pioneer trader...

In addition to prospecting for gold in California, many Chinese also came as contract laborers to Hawaii...

In 1820, The Emancipator was the first anti-slavery magazine...

North America (the United States and Canada) was originally known as Turtle Island...

In 1905 Twenty-nine black intellectuals and activist from fourteen states met near Niagara Falls, New York...

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson sign the Jones-Shafroth Act which made the residents of Puerto Rico American citizens...

On a 1,000-year-old pottery vessel found in Guatemala, a Maya man is shown smoking a roll of tobacco leaves tied with a string...

Sometimes called the Apostle of the Cuban Revolution, José Martí was born in Havana...

On April 18, 1975, less than two weeks before the fall of Saigon, President Ford authorized the entry of 130,000 refugees...

In 1933 Albert Ernest Forsythe and Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round trip transcontinental flight...

In 1942 black Marines were first enlisted but were placed on inactive status...

Recorded instances of Native American women taking contraceptives dates back to the 1700's...

In 1891 Minnie Geddings Cox was the first black postmistress in the United States...

The first Asian immigrants to come to the U.S. in significant numbers were the Chinese in the middle of the 19th century...

In 1872 Elijah McCoy patented the first version of his lubricator for steam engines...

In 1916 The Lincoln Motion Picture company was the first movie company organized by black filmmakers...

Philip Jaisohn arrived in the U.S. in 1885 as a political exile...

In 1891 Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois was the first African American hospital owned and operated in the US...

Garrett Morgan, a brilliant inventor, and business man was the first to patent a 3-way automatic traffic signal...

Yasuke was Japan's first samurai of black African origin...

In 1945 more than seven hundred enlisted members of the 6888th Women's Army Corps Battalion were sent to England...

In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only US law to prevent immigration and naturalization on the basis of race...

In 1880 The Pea Island, North Carolina Lifesaving Station was the first and only all black Coast Guard facility...

Duke Kahanamoku came to be known as the father of international surfing...

In 1895 W.E.B. Dubois was the first black to receive a doctorate from Harvard University...

Ellen Ochoa made history in 1993 when she boarded the space shuttle Discovery...

Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first women of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...

In 1915 Frederick D Patterson was the first black man to build cars between 1915 - 1919...