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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.

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"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." - AsianPacificHeritage.gov

In 1978, Congress passed Public Law 95-419, which directed President Carter to designate a week in May 1979 as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. In 1990, Congress passed a law amending the 1978 law, requesting a month-long observance.

The term "Asian/Pacific" includes the continent of Asia and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia,  and Polynesia.

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