Image Above: ​"Interior of Modern Stores. Tang Jack Chow, store manager, standing between a nephew Chester Chow, and employee, Jimmy Robinson. Courtesy of Sung Gay Chow" From Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, p. 71.
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 Photographs, Illustrations, and Other Images:
  • "14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." This is an image of a document. Courtesy of ourdocuments.gov. Image #9.
  • "A political cartoon from 1882, showing a Chinese man being barred entry to the 'Golden Gate of Liberty'. The caption reads, 'We must draw the line somewhere, you know.' Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, vol. 54 (1882 April 1), p. 96." Courtesy of United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. Image #14.
  • "[Alfred Waud.] 'Chinese Cheap Labor in Louisiana- Chinamen at Work on the Millaudon Sugar Plantation, July 29, 1871. Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection." Courtesy Winston Ho, The Millaudon Chinese. Image #18.
  • "Behind the Counter." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Store Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #45.
  • "Bolivar County Courthouse, Cleveland, MS, August, 2016." Courtesy of Cameron Tichy. Image #52.
  • "Bolivar County Courthouse, Rosedale, MS, August, 2016." Courtesy of Cameron Tichy. Image #54.
  • "Chinese and white miners sluicing for gold at Auburn Ravine in Northern California's Placer County in 1852. (California State Library)." Caption courtesy of immigationunitedstates.org. Image #19
  • "Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882." This is an image of a document. Courtesy of ourdocuments.gov. Image #10.
  • "Chinese Farm Family, Mississippi Delta." Image and caption courtesy of Sunny Nash. Image #16.
  • "Chinese Fishing Village in Monterey, 1875. Photo: Dressler, Albert, California Historical Society, Public Domain." Photo by Albert Dressler. Image and caption courtesy of sfgate.com. Image #17.
  • “The Chinese Labor Convention at Memphis-Gathering of Delegates.” The New York Times [New York], 13 July 1869.​ Image #68.
  • "Chinese Must Go to Colored Schools" Supreme Court Rules That White Schools Are For Whites Only." Afro-American [Balitmore, MD], 26 Nov. 1927, p. 2 ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Image #69.
  • "Chinese? No! No! No! July 23, 1892. Image courtesy of Washington Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington, 1892." This is an image of a posted bill. Courtesy of Sunny Nash. Image #48.
  • "Chow's Super Market, Rosedale, MS, August, 2016." Courtesy of Cameron Tichy. Image #53.
  • "Chow's Super Market, Rosedale, MS, August, 2016." Courtesy of Cameron Tichy. Image #50.
  • "Cleveland Chinese Mission, First Baptist Church, Courtesy, Sung Gay Chow." Caption and image from Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, p. 120. Image #33.
  • "Collecting Scrap Metal." Courtesy Paul Wong.  Also, "Students from the Cleveland Chinese School collected 6,000 pounds of scrap metal to sell as part of their participation in the Schools-At-War program, 1942-1943. The money received was donated to the Red Cross. In addition, Chinese students sold $1200.10 of War Stamps and Bonds. The Schools-At-War Program was sponsored by the War Savings Staff of the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Office of Education and its Wartime Commission. Photograph from the Cleveland, Mississippi, Chinese School Scrapbook. Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History." Caption from Mississippi History Now.  Image #13.
  • "Exhibit at Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum." Courtesy of www.deltastate.edu. Image #67.
  • "Exterior, Chinese School of Mississippi." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos School Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #34.
  • "Exterior Church Congregation." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Church Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #29.
  • "Exterior Min Sang Grocery Store." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Store Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #46.
  • "Father and Son Portrait." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Snaps Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #43.
  • "Formal Family, Interior Grocery Store." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Store Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #31.
  • Gee, Alvin and Lum Family. "Biscoe Lum." Cleveland, MS: Delta State University Archives. Biscoe Lum, in World War II. Image #2.
  • ---. "Gong and Kate." Cleveland, MS: Delta State University Archives. Jeu Gong Lum and Kate Lum, 1918. Image #3.
  • ---. "Kate Lum with Her Daughters."  Cleveland, MS: Delta State University Archives. Kate Lum with her daughters, Berda Chan and Martha Gee, 1915. Image #4.
  • ---. "Lum Family." Cleveland, MS: Delta State University Archives. The Lum Family, Berda, Biscoe, and Martha, front row, and Gong and Kate, back row. Image #5.
  • "Hop Jeong’s Certificate of Identity. Image courtesy of Hop Jeong." From Immigrant Voices, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Image #62
  • "...In 1910, a young girl from China, Mei Ling Soong, in Macon, Georgia, was denied admission to a white public school."  Caption and image courtesy of John Jung, chineseamericanhistorian.blogspot.com. Image #25.
  • "In 1913, objections arose in Covington, Kentucky, when Pong Duck applied to attend a white school." This is an image from a Hartford, Kentucky newspaper, November 12, 1913. Caption by John Jung, courtesy of chineseamericahistorian.blogspot.com. Image #11.
  • "In 1941, Henry and Edith Jew (Jue), accompanied May (Magen) on the first day of class to the white school, Oakhurst Elementary School, Clarksdale, MS." Image courtesy Betty Dickard. Caption courtesy John Jung, chineseamericanhistorian.blogspot.com. Image #23.
  • "In 2012, the Clarksdale newspaper gave recognition of the breaking of the racial barriers at school by the Jue family, paving the way for other Chinese children in the following years." This is an image of a newpaper article, courtesy of Betty Dickard.  Caption courtesy of John Jung, chineseamericanhistorian.blogspot.com. Image #20.
  • "Interior Grocery Store." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Store Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #47.
  • "Interior Grocery Store." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Store Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #42.
  • "Interior of Modern Stores. Tang Jack Chow, store manager, standing between a nephew Chester Chow, and employee, Jimmy Robinson. Courtesy of Sung Gay Chow." Caption and image from Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, p. 71. Image #35.
  • "Joe Brothers, Around 1925." Courtesy of Joe Y. Sing. From Journey Stories from the Cleveland Chinese Mission School, edited by Paul Wong and Doris Ling Lee. This is a photograph of the Joe Brothers Grocery and several cars. Image #41.
  • "Kate Lum and Martha Lum Gee today,"-1983, courtesy of Sandra Wong der Bing, Southwest Chinese Journal. Image #55.
  • "Lithograph 'Regular Ticket Workingmen's Party California. The Chinese Must Go! 11th Senatorial District,' 1878. Illustrator Carl Albert Browne." This is a political cartoon. Courtesy African American Policy Forum. Image #7.
  • "Man in Cotton Field." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Snaps Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum.  Image #30.
  • "Man with Children, in Meat Locker." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Store Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #44.
  • "Min Sang Grocery." Cleveland, MS: Delta State University Archives. This is a photograph of the Min Sang and Co. Grocery and Market. "Min Sang, Greenville opened in 1934 and replaced in 1952."  Courtesy Delta State University Archives. Image #40.
  • "Mississippi Delta Map," Courtesy National Park Service and Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. Image #65.
  • "Mother (Nettie Hunt) and daughter (Nickie) sit on steps of the Supreme Court building on May 18, 1954, the day following the Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Nettie is holding a newspaper with the headline 'High Court Bans Segregation in Public Schools.' Reproduction courtesy of Corbis Images." Caption and image courtesy of www.pbs.org. Image #15.
  • "Mrs. E.B. Reynolds' Oriental School, Greenville, Miss. 1946-47." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos School Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #37.
  • "No Dogs, Negroes, Mexicans. Restroom White/Colored. Colored Seated in Rear." This a photo of Jim Crow-era signs, by unknown. Courtesy padresteve.com. Image #28.
  • "On September 13,1923, Yee Wee Thing is issued this certificate allowing him to visit China and return to the United States." Courtesy of Byron Yee. Image #49.
  • "Plessy v. Ferguson." Courtesy National Archives. Image #73.
  • "Political Cartoon 'The Chinese Question,' February 18, 1871, Artist Thomas Nast, Published in Harper's Weekly." Courtesy harpweek.com. This is a political cartoon. Image #8.
  • Quon, Frieda. Cleveland Chinese Mission School Marker, May 2003. "The Cleveland Chinese Mission School historic marker was dedicated last October by the Mississippi Delta Heritage Museum, the city of Cleveland, Miss., and the Delta State University Archives and Museum." Photo courtesy Frieda Quon, in article by Katherine Flynn. Image #24.
  • "Rosedale Chinese 1918 - 19. Back from left: Willie Wy Wong, Ben Wong, Kate Wong Lum, Gong Lum, Middle: Wong Dai, Lum Jim Foon, Martha Lum, Oy Shung Fung, Susie Wong, Front: Mamie Wye, Berda Lum, Taylor Wy, Dan Wy, Alex Wong photo credit: Carolyn Hong Chang" Courtesy of J.W.Dung. Image #27.
  • "Rosedale Consolidated High School, now known as West Bolivar High School, Rosedale, MS, August, 2016." Courtesy of Cameron Tichy. Image #51.
  • “Rosedale, Mississippi Map.” Courtesy http://www.city-data.com/city/Rosedale-Mississippi.html. Image #22.
  • "[Segregated drinking fountains labeled "white" and "colored" in the Dougherty County Courthouse, Albany, Georgia". Danny Lyon, Photographer.  Courtesy of Library of Congress. Image #56.
  • "Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education." Americanhistory.si.edu, National Museum of National History. This is an image of page 1 of a timeline about school segregation. Image #70.
  • "Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education." Americanhistory.si.edu, National Museum of National History. This is an image of page 2 of a timeline about school segregation. Image #71.
  • "Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education." Americanhistory.si.edu, National Museum of National History. This is an image of page 3 of a timeline about school segregation. Image #72.
  • "Southwest Chinese Journal (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1983 Page 12 of 20." Courtesy of Southwest Chinese Journal. Image #59.
  • "Southwest Chinese Journal (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1983 Page 13 of 20." Courtesy of Southwest Chinese Journal. Image #60.
  • "Student Body Photo May 3. 1938.  Chinese Mission School." Courtesy http://mississippideltachinese.webs.com/schooling.htm Image #26.
  • "Students in the Oriental School, Greenville, Courtesy, Delta State University Archives, Cleveland, MS." Caption and image from Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, p. 116. Image #32.
  • "Students of the only all-Chinese school in Bolivar County, Mississippi, 1938. Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History". Caption by Mississippi History Now. Image #57.
  • "The Chinese Exclusion Act"- 1866-1898, courtesy of the U.S. State Department, Office of the Historian. Image #58.
  • "The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882. Photo Credit: British Columbia Archives." Courtesy www.pbs.org. Image #21.
  • "The Chinese Must Go!" trade card, Missouri Steam Washer Company. St. Louis, Missouri, 1883."   Courtesy of Kadist Art Foundation. This is a political cartoon.  Image #6.
  • "The Hopson Plantation in the Mississippi Delta". Caption and image courtesy of usslave.blogspot.com. Image #12.
  • "The one-room Oriental School near the leveee in Greenville, MS. Courtesy of Ted Shepherd." Caption and image from Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, p. 115. Image #36.
  • "The Taft Court. Supreme Court of the United States." Courtesy of supremecourthistory.org. Image #66.
  • "The Yellow Peril: Exclusion Fence. Cartoon. Museum of Chinese in the Americas." Courtesy Angela Tsai, Asian Amerian Legal Defense and Education Fund. Image #61.
  • "What shall we do with John Chinaman? [2 illustrations: 1. Irishman throwing a Chinese man over cliffs towards China; 2. Southern plantation owner leading him to cotton fields." Illustrated in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, vol. 29 (1869 Sept. 25), p. 32. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Image #63.
  • Wolcott, Marion Post. "'In the Mississippi Delta. There is an ever-increasing number of Chinese grocerymen and merchants. Leland.' Creator-Marion Post Wolcott." Courtesy of Library of Congress.  Image #64.
  • Wong, Paul.  "Bolivar County Elementary School, Rosedale, MS, in 1924. Martha Lum fourth from left, front row." This is a class photo of the Rosedale High School 3rd and 4th Grade Class, April 1924. Courtesy of Paul Wong and Delta State University Archives and Museum, Cleveland, MS, Boyd-Walters-Bobo Collection, M100, Box 33, Folder 91.  Image #1.
  • "World War II Vets." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Veterans Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #38.
  • "World War II Vets." From Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Photos Veterans Collection, courtesy Delta State University Archives and Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum. Image #39.