Nguyen Family Home: Thoai Nguyen video interview

by Anastasia Saverino for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Interview with Thoai Nguyen, Executive Director of Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition, longtime South Philadelphia resident. Nguyen discusses his family's life in Vietnam, Vietnamese refugees in South Philadelphia; 7th street business corridor; Italian Americans; race relations; neighborhood boundaries, and change in the neighborhood and businesses.

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