May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

Tom Kobayashi, Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, 1943 (photograph by Ansel Adams). Courtesy Library of Congress

The first Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month was signed into law in 1992. "The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants." Library of Congress

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• Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month - Library of Congress 

• May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month - San Diego History Center