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Unladylike2020

May 11, 2020 by Julia Flynn Siler Leave a Comment

Women’s lives have long been overlooked by historians, especially the lives of women of color. But a new PBS project, UnladyLike2020, is producing 26 documentary shorts of unsung women heroes of American history.

Tye Leung Schulze, artwork by Amelie Chabannes

 

Part of PBS’s American Masters series honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, just aired a film about Tye Leung Schulze.  She was the first Chinese American woman to work for the U.S. Federal Government and an advocate for trafficked women. You can watch the film here.

 

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Filed Under: Asian Americans, History, Human Trafficking, Research, The Writing Life, women's history Tagged With: "donaldina cameron", cameron house, documentary film, tye leung schulze, women's history

Chinatown Rising

July 3, 2019 by Julia Flynn Siler 2 Comments

This summer, I  saw the new film “Chinatown Rising” in San Francisco. It’s a new documentary directed by Harry Chuck and Josh Chuck, a father and son team. Both of them have been deeply involved with Cameron House,  whose early history I explore in my latest book.

The Rev. Harry Chuck, a social activist and now filmmaker, was a youth director and then Executive Director of Cameron House. He mentioned to his son Josh, who also worked at Cameron House over the years, that he was thinking about getting rid of some film reels that had been sitting in his garage for decades. Josh asked if he could see them first.

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Filed Under: Asian Americans, Film Tagged With: activism, cameron house, Chinatown, documentary film, san francisco

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