Tag: Nellie Wong
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Island Bound: Nellie Wong
Island Bound: Women Making History gathers, preserves and shares the stories of inspiring women whose collective action helped to carry Angel Island history forward into the future. Nellie Wong is…
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“It’s in the Blood” by Nellie Wong
Nellie Wong’s poem “It’s In the Blood” is a personal narrative about her family’s journey from China to Oakland’s Chinatown via Angel Island. Nellie read the poem for participants in…
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Angel Island Insight #8: Megan & Chris Wong
MEGAN and CHRIS WONG’s grandfathers were held in the Angel Island Immigration Station barracks. In 1929, Edmund Fong (Gung Gung) arrived in the belly of his mother Wun Shee Fong,…
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Angel Island Insight #3: Lenore Chinn
LENORE CHINN, lenorechinn.comPhoto: Mia Nakano, ©Visibility Project https://www.visibilityproject.org/ I am a San Francisco based artist who focuses on the depiction of a wide spectrum of people in all their diversity…
