以下选自长期民权律师和活动家陈兆文于 1978 年拍摄的照片制作的幻灯片，提供了亚裔美国人在这动荡的一年中领导和参与的活动的剪影。受早期争取民权和集体行动力量的启发，这一代亚裔美国活动家为满足社区低收入成员的需求而奋斗，更多地接触高等教育、和平以及结束针对亚洲人的暴力和种族主义。陈兆文主要居住在纽约，今年似乎前往拍摄照片并可能参加洛杉矶的抗议活动，为这个时代亚裔美国社区的活动家之间的思想交流和团结建设做出了贡献。
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亚裔美国人积极行动主义，1978年
2017.013.012 A rally of Asian Americans for Peace in Los Angeles in 1978. 1978 年在洛杉矶举行的亚裔美国人争取和平集会。
2017.013.021 This slide documents an anti-war demonstration protesting Nixon’s new Vietnamization policy, which promised to achieve a drastic reduction in American ground troops by vastly ramping up the training and arming of South Vietnamese troops. Protestors’ banners—“Nixon Out of S.E. Asia”, “Nixon’s Vietnamization is a Bomb!”, “Stop the Bombing of Asian People,” “Freedom for Asians Now,” and “End Racism”—drew attention to the fact that this withdrawal policy entailed continued war, militarization, and suffering for South East Asian peoples. 这张幻灯片记录了一次反战示威，抗议尼克松的越南化新政策，该政策承诺通过大幅增加南越军队的训练和武装来大幅削减美国地面部队。抗议者的标语——“尼克松离开东南亚”、“尼克松的越南化是一颗炸弹！”、“停止对亚洲人民的轰炸”、“现在为亚洲人的自由”和“结束种族主义”——提请注意这样一个事实，即这种撤军政策导致了持续的战争、军事化和东南亚人民的苦难。
2017.013.008 Asian Americans’ position on affirmative action has become more complicated and divided today, however, Asian American students here expressed solidarity with other students of color opposing the 1978 Supreme Court ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Although Bakke upheld the legality of considering race as one of several factors in determining admission, it prohibited colleges from continuing racial quotas which reserved a minimum number of slots for minority students. Significantly, Justice Lewis Powell’s deciding vote and opinion redefined race-based admission as appropriate and permissible for the purpose of diversity, shifting it away from its original intent as a means of redress for past injustice and discrimination.
2017.013.002 Here, the traditional Chinese Lion Dance was performed while holding a blue banner that read “SMASH BAKKE."
This slide takes us back to a moment in time when members of the Asian American community in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles fought collectively for their housing needs and attempted to prevent corporate efforts to develop and take away their residential space. The large banner on the building reads “Hell No We Won’t Go!”
2017.013.001 This slide brings our attention to a newsstand on the street, where a passerby stands and reads an article titled “Little Tokyo Needs Housing!!”. The indistinct photograph printed in the news article captures Little Tokyo protestors holding homemade banners and is a reprint of Rocky’s photograph (the first featured image).