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As South Vietnam fell, a Democratic governor turned refugees away while Washington’s Republican leader welcomed them as a ‘moral duty’
After Saigon fell, most states were unwilling at first to take Southeast Asian refugees. Washington was the exception.
50th Anniversary: Having lost everything, they rebuilt a Little Saigon in Orange County
On April 30, 1975, the communist North Vietnamese Army captured the democratic South Vietnamese capital. The last Americans ...
How the fall of Saigon shapes Vietnamese communities and bonds in San Diego, 50 years on
Lan Dang, the president of the Vietnamese Federation of San Diego, fled Vietnam with his family in 1994 when he was 11. He ...
“Little Saigons” have blossomed across the U.S. in the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War
The Vietnamese community is spread out in clusters throughout Houston. The original Little Saigon popped up in the city’s ...
When Vietnamese refugees made their new homes in America, they built Little Saigon communities across the country
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the enclaves offer community to people who had to build new lives and add vibrancy to ...