San Francisco was a focus for Asian American reformers in the 1960s because it was

San Francisco had long been a major port of entry for Asian immigrants, especially Chinese immigrants arriving in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This made the city an important center for Asian American communities and reform efforts in the 1960s. Japanese American internment took place at detention sites elsewhere, and the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress, not signed in San Francisco.

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