Tag: Vietnam war

  • Southeast Asian Refugees in Arkansas

    Southeast Asian Refugees in Arkansas

    by

    in

    What can we learn from the history of refugees in the state of Arkansas? In April of 1975, Fort Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas, was announced along with three other locations across the US as one the processing centers for Southeast Asian refugees who were escaping the Vietnam and Cambodian wars, through the 1975 Indochina…