AANHPI History Calendar

· Washington, D.C.

Kamala Harris Sworn In as Vice President

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Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President of the United States, becoming the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to hold the office. (Shares Jan 20 with the 1920 Oahu sugar strike.)

Communities
  • Indian American
Topics
  • politics
Event type
  • achievement/first
Regions
  • South Asian
Identity lens
  • women

Sources

  • inaugural.senate.gov inaugural.senate.gov/59th-inaugural-ceremonies/
  • archives.gov archives.gov/presidential-records/vice-presidential-records/selected-vice-presidential-records/harris-records

Also on January 20

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Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

Filipino workers walked out on Oahu's sugar plantations, soon joined by the Federation of Japanese Labor, in a multiethnic strike of some 8,300 workers demanding higher wages.