Yale Day of Service: CA, Tiburon - Angel Island Clean Up
Sun, May 05
|Tiburon
Join fellow Yale alumni for the 11th annual Angel Island State Park Day of Service event. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Angel Island Immigration Station was the first stop for hundreds of thousands of immigrants crossing the Pacific Ocean between 1910 and 1940.
Time & Location
May 05, 2024, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Tiburon, Angel Island, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA
About the Event
Join fellow AAAYA members and Yale alumni for the 11th year at Angel Island State Park! Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Angel Island Immigration Station was the first stop for hundreds of thousands of immigrants crossing the Pacific Ocean between 1910 and 1940. It is an important part of American and Asian American history, with incomparable vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and the Bay. Visit the website for more information about the history of this site through which thousands of Asian and other immigrants came to this country (please do not send questions to them).
You'll be cleaning the grounds and taking a free guided tour led by Grant Din (YC'79) to learn about this historic site which processed hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mostly from Asia, as they tried to immigrate despite the Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemen's Agreement which restricted immigration of Japanese…