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Gr 5–8—For the 30 years it was in operation, from 1910–1940, Angel Island Immigration Station served as the first step for hundreds of thousands of people seeking a new home and a new life in the United States. It was a bleak, unwelcoming introduction to the new land, and for many immigrants, primarily those from China, it was also a detention center. Many Chinese were held there for weeks or months at a time while they endured lengthy interviews and invasive medical exams in order to prove that they could enter th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

“This is our Plymouth Rock…our Valley Forge, our Alamo, our Statue of Liberty, our Lincoln Memorial, all rolled into one.” In 1970, California park ranger Alexander Weiss happened upon unusual markings on the walls of an abandoned and decaying building on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. The writing turned out to be inscriptions and wall poems left by Chinese immigrants passing through the Angel Island Immigration Station, and Weiss’s findings spar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More