Moon Tung Wong

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Moon Tung WONG

1927 and 1929 from Toisan, China

Moon Tung Wong entered San Francisco as a paper son. When someone reported his false papers, he was removed from Francisco Middle School, held at Angel Island for a month, and deported. He re-entered under another paper son name and went straight to Chicago. Then he and his family moved to Los Angeles where they opened a laundry business.

(Portrait by Michelle Wakeman, SFSU 2016)