AANHPI History Calendar

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David Henry Hwang Wins Tony Award for M. Butterfly

achievement

At the June 5, 1988 Tony Awards, David Henry Hwang won Best Play for M. Butterfly, becoming the first Asian American playwright to win the award.

Communities
  • Chinese American
Topics
  • arts
Event type
  • achievement/first

Sources

  • tonyawards.com tonyawards.com/winners/year/1988/category/any/show/any/
  • playbill.com playbill.com/article/on-this-day-m-butterfly-opened-on-broadway-march-20-1988

Also on June 5

injustice

Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio Decided

The Supreme Court made employment-discrimination claims harder to prove in a suit by Filipino and Alaska Native cannery workers (Alaskeros) of ILWU Local 37; Congress partly reversed the ruling in the 1991 Civil Rights Act.