Perspective: The parks reflect America’s unique immigrant history and help us feel seen in the country’s evolving landscape, Meena Venkataramanan writes.
After that, we drove down to Atlanta, where we visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park and began to understand how King’s civil rights victoriesfor Asians like us to move to the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which removed national-origins quotas.
And when we visited Yosemite in 2013, we became aware of John Muir, the Scottish immigrant whose activism led to the park’s creation, although he himself harbored racist views toward Indigenous and Black people. Hundreds of Chinese immigrants, we learned, also helped develop Yosemite, building roads with handpicks and shovels.Beyond educating us about U.S.
Each national park we explored fostered a renewed appreciation for America and its possibilities, but simultaneously taught us something new about its blemished history and politics.has taken new shapes — and national parks remain central to the narrative. Earlier this year, the Dry Tortugas National Park in Floridaafter 300 migrants, mostly Cubans fleeing economic crisis and repressive government, arrived on the islands.
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