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This photograph shows an unidentified Vietnamese woman and child in the crowd of Vietnamese refugees Iowa recruited and welcomed to the state, in this 1975 photo from Des Moines. Iowa was the first state to offer resettlement assistance to refugees in 1975 and continued to do so in 1979. In July 1975, former Governor Robert Ray responded to a personal request from President Gerald Ford to offer resettlement to refugees from southeast Asia. He established the Governor’s Task Force for Indochinese Resettlement, which was expanded later to serve all refugees in Iowa and renamed the Iowa Refugee Service Center.
Source-Dependent Questions
- Look closely at the photo. Describe what you see in the image.
- In the foreground of this photo is an unidentified Vietnamese woman and child in the crowd of Vietnamese refugees Iowa recruited and welcomed to the state. Based on this photo, how were Vietnamese refugees treated when arriving in Iowa?
- Iowa was the first state to offer resettlement assistance to refugees from southeast Asia in 1975, at the request of President Gerald Ford, and 1979. Former Iowa Governor Robert Ray created what is now known as the Iowa Refugee Service Center. How did former Governor Ray and President Ford work together to help refugees?