Nights with the Museum presents "Pachappa: America's First Koreatown"

3575 University Avenue,Riverside CA 92501

06 May, 2022

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Pachappa: America's First Koreatown. Dr. Edward T. Chang, Ph.D. , founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies and Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside, will explain how Korean patriot Dosan Ahn Chang Ho founded Riverside’s Pachappa Camp in 1905, known as the first Koreatown in America. Home to Korean Americans who held jobs in the local citrus industry as farm laborers, Pachappa represented the earliest Korean culture and identity in America.