Bigger Than Hiphop:Interracial Activism From the Civil Rights Movement to Today

1885Rock Spring Massacre

1887Deep Creek Massacre

1885Rock Spring Massacre

1887Deep Creek Massacre

• 28 Chinese miners were dead and 15 were injured. Rioters burned 75 Chinese homes resulting in approximately $150,000 in property damage

• Known as Chinese Massacre Cove, as many as 34 Chinese gold miners killed by “cow boy” mob of whites

Chinese Massacre of 1871mob of over 500 white men entered Los Angeles Chinatown to attack, rob and murder Chinese residents of the city. The riots took place on Calle de los Negros (Street of the

Negroes), also referred to as "Nigger Alley", which later became part of Los Angeles Street.

Lynching of 1892According to Ida B. Wells, in 1892 alone there were at least 160 black men lynched

throughout the United States

Transcontinental RailroadCompleted in 1869

Anywhere from 137-1,000 Chinese workers could have been killed during the construction

10 Point Plan of Ir Wor Kuen 1972

We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.• We believe that if the white landlord will not

give decent housing to our Yellow community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.

We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.• We believe in an educational system that will

give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.

We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Yellow people.• We believe we can end police brutality

in our Yellow community by organizing self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Yellow community from police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We, therefore, believe that all Yellow people should arm themselves for self-defense.

Richard Aoki 1938-2009Huey Newton: “The struggle for freedom, justice and equality transcends racial

and ethnic barriers. As far as I’m concerned, you black.”

Richard Aoki 1938-2009• One of the founding

members of the BPP alongside Huey Newton and Bobby Seale • Fought together

against poverty, homelessness, and police brutality

• Asian American Political Alliance-Third World Council

• strike on UC Berkley that lasted 3 months and ended when UC Berkeley finally created an ethnic studies department.

• A student of Aoki’s program, Yuji Ichioka, made popular the term “Asian American” in the early 1970s

MC JinIn 2004, at 22, he became the first Asian-American to release a solo rap album on a major

label in the U.S.