'Documented Rights' exhibit to begin national tour

Thanks to the actions of one Chinese American, Wong Kim Ark, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 1898 that all people born in America, regardless of lineage, were American citizens.

Years before civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to be moved from her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, baseball legend Jackie Robinson was court-martialed, while in the U.S. Army, after refusing to give us his seat on a bus to a white man. He later went on to break Major League Baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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