February 11, 2022

By Will Houston

Many Americans know the story of Ellis Island — the great immigration station in New York that changed the cultural and ethnic makeup of the United States. But fewer know there was a West Coast version in San Francisco Bay that had a far less welcoming history.

A new museum nearly 12 years in the making tells both the dark chapters and bright stories of the Angel Island Immigration Station and the hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian immigrants who passed through it in the early 20th century. (read more)