Koreans in Central California (1903-1957) by Cha Marn J.;

Author:Cha, Marn J.; [Cha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Published: 2010-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Reedley Chamber of Commerce, “Historical Dates, The World’s Fruit Basket,” City of Reedley 1, no. 12 (2005),1.

2. Ibid.

3. In 1988, when Reedley reached its centennial, its local weekly, the Reedley Exponent, documented local ethnic heritage. It covered ten ethnic groups: Chinese, Swedes, Germans, Mennonites, Finnish, Armenians, Japanese, Lebanese, Mexicans, and Filipinos. It missed Koreans. See “Settlements: Reedley Is the ‘Melting Pot’ of California,” Reedley Exponent, 27 October 27, 1988, 9–11. See Reedley: A Study of Ethnic Heritage, 1988. (Fresno, CA: Fresno Pacific College, Professional Development Division, 2001). Koreans were omitted because, although Koreans were very visible in the community, the mainstream Whites mistook them for Chinese. Koreans never bothered to correct them because they would then have to go into their shameful history of their country’s colonization by Japan.

4. Kim Weon-yong, Jae-mi Han-in O-sip-nyeon-sa [Fifty-Year History of Korean Immigrants in America] (Reedley, California: Charles Ho Kim, 1959), 302–303.

5. Ibid., 132.

6. Kim Woon-ha, interview by the author, Los Angeles, March 18, 2003, and Fresno, October 10, 2006 (Central California Korean Historical Society Special Collections, Fresno, CA).

7. Kim Weon-yong, Fifty-Year History, 131–132.

8. Kim Woon-ha, “Kim Hyeong-sun Seon-saeng-ui Yo-yak-doen Saeng-ae” [An Overview of Harry Kim’s Life], (Paper presented at a Seminar on Refocusing on Central California Korean Immigrant History, Fresno, CA: Central California Korean Historical Society, 2003), 14.

9. Ibid.,15.

10. Kim Woon-ha, interview, March 15, 2003.

11. Ahn, Henry. “Cho-gi Mi-ju Han-in Yeo-seong-gwa Geu-ui-ttall-deull,” [The Early Korean American Women and their Daughters] (Paper presented at Society for Korean Women’s History Conference, Seoul, Korea, 2005), 110.

12. Kim Woon-ha, interview, October 10, 2006.

13. Ahn, Early Korean Women, 111.

14. Kim Woon-ha, interview, October 10, 2006.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Mary Kim, videotaped interview by Andrew K. Cha, New York, April 15, 2005, Central California Korean Historical Society Special Collections.

18. Ahn, Early Korean Women, 112.

19. Ibid., 111; Kim Woon-ha, interview, March 15, 2003.

20. Kim, Ji-soo, “Han-in Sa-hoe Seon-gu-ja: Kim Ho-lleul Jung-si-mu-ro” [Kim Ho, the Korean Community’s Early Leader], in Mi-ju Han-in I-min Baek-nyeon-sa [One Hundred-Year History of Korean Immigration to America] (Los Angeles: Southern California Centennial Committee of Korean Immigration to America, 2002), 87.

21. Ibid., 88.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid., 89.

24. Ahn, Early Korean Women, 112–113.

25. Kim Woon-ha, interview, March 15, 2003.

26. Ahn, Early Korean Women, 95.

27. Tony Coelho (U.S. representative), “A Salute to Mr. Nectarine,” Congressional Record, June 2, 1981.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Richard Conley, “Reedley: The World’s Fruit Basket: A Special Report,” Produce Marketing 12 (August 1958), 4.

31. Mike Langford, taped interview by Andrew K. Cha, Merced, CA, June 3, 2005, Central California Korean Historical Society Special Collections.

32. Ibid.

33. Kim Weon-yong, Fifty-Year History, 304.

34. Ibid., 305.

35. Floyd Varsoom, taped interview by the author, Reedley, CA, May 21, 2006, Central California Korean Historical Society Special Collections.

36. Bozo Aalto, taped interview by the author, Reedley, CA, May 15, 2006, Central California Korean Historical Society Special Collections.

37. Ibid.

38. Varsoom, interview, May 21, 2006.

39. Joseph Rhodes, interview by the author, Reedley, CA, June 16, 2006, Central California Korean Historical Society Special Collections.

40. Ibid.

41. Marn J. Cha, “The First Korea Towns on the Mainland, U.

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