Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | Waves of Change | 3
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The History of the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii had been an important outpost since 1887 when the US Navy was granted exclusive access to Pearl Harbor By the 1930s about 20,000 servicemen were based on a wahoo the island that was home to Pearl Harbor and the capital Honolulu. The buildup was good for some businesses and helped soften the blow of the Depression but it also brought increased friction between servicemen and Hawaiian locals. In 1931 five men from working-class Asian Hawaiian or mixed-race families claimed they were innocent insisting they'd never seen Thalia Massey But the story quickly generated sensational headlines and revealed the racial tensions that lurked beneath Hawaii's Aloha Spirit. Have you heard Amazon is now hiring for their new warehouse
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