The trials and triumphs of Asian-American history in Antioch will be the subject of the symposium.
Ron Chan, whose father, Alfred Chan, is a Navy veteran who faced discrimination in Antioch and eventually got an apology from the city of Antioch, also will be on hand. Mayor Lamar Thorpe officially apologized to Chan and his family last year. Chan was denied service in an Antioch restaurant when he was 16 because he was Chinese. He will be donating his official apology proclamation to the museum.o late Chinese residents and their descendents for the past mistreatment.
Antioch had never before acknowledged its past as a sundown town where Chinese were banned from walking the streets after dark, the mayor said. Remnants of tunnels the immigrants had built connecting to businesses and their homes can still be seen in some spots downtown from I Street to the waterfront.
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