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The Oklahoma History Center is one of a handful of museums across the nation that received a grant from the Smithsonian Institution to educate middle school students about Asian-American history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The $2,500 grant helped start an oral history program titled \u201cYoung Historians, Living Histories\u201d that will allow history center staff to teach students how to reach out to Asian-Americans, interview them on camera and submit the video to the Smithsonian website.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsian-Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the country, so it’s important for us to know about their history,\u201d<\/strong> said Leah Craig, curator of education at the history center.<\/p>\n

The program kicked off on Oct. 8 with about 20 students from Norman’s Washington Irving Middle School listening to Craig talk about Asian-American history.<\/p>\n

Asians settled in Oklahoma as early as 1889 during the land run, as evidenced by a photo that captured Chinese-American Tom Sing and his laundry business in Oklahoma City’s Chinatown.<\/strong> The small population of Asian-Americans in Oklahoma doubled during the 1920s oil boom.<\/p>\n

Today, Oklahoma is home to more than 3 million Asian-Americans, according to the Census Bureau. Craig encouraged the students, who represented a variety of ethnic backgrounds, to create videos about any topic relating to Asian-American history.<\/p>\n

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