By Joyska Nunez-Medina
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. According to the 2020 census, 178,683 people in Tennessee reported themselves as Asian alone or in combination. This was a 58% increase from 2010. The history of Asian immigration to the area begins in the 1870s, when Chinese people settled in Memphis, building businesses and lives in the Delta. But only a few years prior, southern landowners and businessmen established the roots of a doomed plan to contract Ch...
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