Coming to America.

Abstract

In 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important anniversaries: the arrival in the United States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and the completion of the transcontinental railroad (May 10, 1869). In 1992, Congress expanded the 10-day observance to a month-long celebration. 75,629 The population of who will identify themselves as Asian alone in Iowa according to the 2020 Census. This group comprises 2.4% of Iowa’s total population.