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Old May 21, 2008 | 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by DanTravels
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32. During the short-lived Republic of Hawai`i, one of the laws of the Republic forbade ethnic Chinese and Japanese children (those two nationalities made up the vast majority of the sugar cane plantation workers at the time, having come over as contract workers) from attending public schools.

33. In 1993, the President signed Public Law 103-150 which apologized to the Hawai`ian people for the United States' complicity in the illegal overthrow of the monarchy.
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