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Nguyen, Dao Anh
Anh Dao T. Nguyen is a realtor and coordinator for the Southeast Asian Fisherfolk Association, an organization founded in response to the Gulf of Mexico BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, fire, oil spill and cleanup.
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Phan, Chris
Chris Phan was born in the Vinh Long province in Vietnam. His dad and uncles had been involved in the military or politics in South Vietnam, but after 1975, his family was forced to move to a rural area during the land reforms. He remembers that his…
Nguyen, Dat
Dat Nguyen discusses the obstacles he faced while pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician and songwriter despite being blind from birth, orphaned at the age of five and living in impoverished conditions in Vietnam. In 1989, he…
Denney, Stephen
Stephen Denney, from the UC Berkeley Library, Main Library, discusses human rights issues in Vietnam, an interest that he cultivated from his fourteen-year tenure working in the Indochina Archives with Douglas Pike. He co-authored a book along with…
Wang, Jason
Jason Wang, an Asian American studies major at UT Austin, describes how he became interested in Vietnamese American history by participating in an oral history project that he conducted as part of a course on Vietnamese Americans taught by Dr. Linda…
Khúc, Minh Thơ
Vietnamese-language interview with Khuc Minh Tho, President of the FVPPA (Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association), and board member of The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation. She recalled how Vietnamese American organizations…
Le, Xuan Khoa
Le Xuan Khoa came to the United States as a refugee in 1975, and became president of the Southeast Asian Task Force (SEARAC). He became a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies (SAIS) in 1996 and in 2007, he…
Rosenblatt, Lionel
Lionel Rosenblatt discusses his experiences as a former foreign service officer with the CORDS program in Vietnam, whose goal was to gain support from the rural population for the government of South Vietnam. He organized a way to evacuate by air…
Nguyen, Nam Loc
Nam Loc Nguyen discusses his involvement as director for the Immigration and Refugee department for Catholic Charities, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He begins with the story of how he, himself, was a refugee that fled from Saigon on April 27,…
Lu, Anh Thu
Lu Anh Thu has been an active board member since 2003 for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington D.C. The foundation was established in 1993 through a congressional act signed by President Clinton. The mission is to educate this…