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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

History

On October 5, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 95-419, which proclaimed the week of May 4, 1979, to be Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. May was selected to commemorate the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, and the the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843. Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week was celebrated annually until 1990, when Congress expanded the week-long observance to a month-long observance. Passed in 1992, Public Law 102-450 officially designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Every year since, each US President has issued a proclamation honoring the contributions of Asian American and Pacific Islander Americans.

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