Author: Zhida Song-James On May 4, 1912, tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village, and the march for women’s suffrage was about to start. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a young Chinese woman, was on horseback leading the procession. It was one of the largest gatherings of US women’s political participation. […]
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Fan Jiao The three amendments (Amendments 13, 14, 15) adopted after the American Civil War (1861-1865) to abolish slavery and establish civil and legal rights for black Americans，among which, the 14th amendment established in 1866, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed that all persons
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2018年在一个“Yick Wo 案子的重要性“的讲话中，前大法官Anthony Kennedy说到，“我们要感谢 Yick Wo，他并不是美国公民，来到美国最高法院帮助我们确立了这一重要原则“
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The earliest Chinese settlers in St. Louis congregated in an area between Seventh, Eighth, Market and Walnut Streets, which became the Chinatown of St. Louis, known as Hop Alley. Annie Leong managed one of the best Chinese restaurants in the Chinatown. Gradually, the people of Hop Alley called Annie the mayor of Chinatown.
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圣路易斯最早的华人定居者聚集在第七街、第八街、市场街和核桃街之间的地区，这成为了圣路易斯唐人街，通常被称为 Hop Alley。梁美珍(Annie Leong) 被人们称为唐人街的市长。
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political struggle and corruption in American society had arguably made Chinatown to be a place filled with vices, violence, and bloody battles, which aggravated the plight of the Chinese whose life had deteriorated since the Chinese Exclusion Act. This kind of situation had not seen any improvement until 1921 and after 1931 it finally disappeared.
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Over his more than 50 years spent in the United States, Lee participated in a groundbreaking program that educated Chinese boys in American schools, lectured widely about Chinese culture, wrote and edited for newspapers and magazines, lobbied against the “Chinese Exclusion Act”, and fathered four children.
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1912 年 5 月 4 日，纽约历史悠久的格林威治村街道上聚集了上万人群，争取妇女选举权的游行即将开始。在马背上领头是一位年轻的中国女子，名叫李彬华 （Mabel Ping-Hua Lee）。这是众多为争取妇女参政举行的游行中参加人数最多的一次。尽管在当时对华人歧视的移民法下她不能申请成为美国公民，但她从小就在美国和中国争取投票权的斗争中发挥了重要作用。后来，她成为在美国第一位获得哲学博士学位的中国女性。今天，李彬华被公认为美国华人妇女参政的先驱。
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China Camp State Park is located along the shore of San Pablo Bay. The road through the park offers beautiful views of the waterfront. In fact China Camp was a Chinese shrimp fishing village that flourished here in the 1880s. Nearly 500 people from Canton, China lived in the village, and more than 90% of the shrimp caught by the fishermen was dried in the sun and shipped to China or Chinese communities throughout the United States.
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he legendary Sun Yun, who is now known as Cecilia Chiang, was given her English name by a professor while studying at Fu Jen Catholic University in Peiping.