Description
The Korean-American Oral History Project at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center was founded to develop oral history source
materials on Korean American history during the 1903-45 period, and to facilitate their use by researchers. The tape-recorded
oral histories of Korean American immigrants to the United States made by Sonia Shinn Sunoo form a part of that project. The
collection consists of 31 cassette tape recordings of interviews with Korean immigrants to the United States.
Background
The Korean-American Oral History Project at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center was founded to develop oral history source
materials on Korean American history during the 1903-45 period, and to facilitate their use by researchers. Its goals are
to collect individual memories of people and events, to develop an indexing project for the collection and to establish a
permanent depository of these records at UCLA. The tape-recorded oral histories of Korean American immigrants to the United
States made by Sonia Shinn Sunoo form a part of that project.
Restrictions
Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. The library
can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish or quote
must be submitted in writing to
the Manuscripts Librarian, Department of Special Collections.] Credit shall be given as follows: [c in circle] The Regents
of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections.
Availability
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.