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Chinese immigrants who migrated to Angel Island in the bay of San Francisco, California, took on new names after a 1906 earthquake destroyed birth records. NBC News' Richard Lui shares his family ...

Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 These lines ...

This photo, taken some time in the late 19th century, shows a glorious winter sunrise over Angel Island as seen from the hills above Sausalito. The tip of the Tiburon Peninsula can be seen at the far ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The Bay Area is marked by the stories of the people detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940 who were on a journey to America in search of a better life. That history is ...

Introduction -- Guarding the Golden Gate: the life and business of the immigration station -- "One hundred kinds of oppressive laws": Chinese immigrants in the shadow of exclusion -- "Agony, anguish, ...

When it comes to islands in the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz's famed jail hogs all the attention. But sitting pretty just beyond the prison isle is another Bay Area gem: the often-overlooked Angel ...