KERA's Recovering the Stories video series chronicles historic communities of color across Dallas, taking a closer look at how subjects like police brutality and gentrification have disproportionately affected these neighborhoods.
The fall of Saigon in 1975, and a four-year genocide in Cambodia carried out by the Khmer Rouge, prompted a mass migration of Southeast Asian refugees into the United States.
Dallas was one of several cities around the country to become home to those fleeing the violence. Many families settled in a small section of East Dallas, a neighborhood that would become known as Little Asia.
Though the area was fraught with challenges, the families found community and healing through a small community garden.
Many of the families have left East Dallas, but the garden remains today. It's now the oldest community garden in Dallas.
This episode in the Recovering the Stories video series examines the significance of this garden to the community and the refugees' descendants.
