Three surviving 1943 trees are now part of a grove planted by the AU Arboretum and Garden beside the School of International Service (SIS). Dr. Louis Goodman, international relations professor and former SIS Dean, helped realize this project. From his office window he had observed visitors to the site for years: "There was a knowledge in the Korean community about these trees. Korean Americans and Koreans, not just in Washington, but from New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, would come here." For more info, see Jimmy Hoover, "Diplomacy Blossoms: The Secret History of DC's Favorite Tree" in AWOL (April 30, 2014).

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This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: American University Cherry Trees
Three surviving 1943 trees are now part of a grove planted by the AU Arboretum and Garden beside the School of International Service (SIS). Dr. Louis Goodman, international relations professor and former SIS Dean, helped realize this project. From his office window he had observed visitors to the site for years: "There was a knowledge in the Korean community about these trees. Korean Americans and Koreans, not just in Washington, but from New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, would come here." For more info, see Jimmy Hoover, "Diplomacy Blossoms: The Secret History of DC's Favorite Tree" in AWOL (April 30, 2014).
This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: American University Cherry Trees

In 1943, Syngman Rhee, who would later become the first president of South Korea after World War II, worked with American University president Paul F. Douglass, to plant Korean cherry trees on the school's grounds in protest to Japan’s colonization…