Image Above: "World War II Vets." Courtesy of Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum.
"When we were at war, Mother even wrote to the school board and said that my kids are having to be taken to Cleveland to school, and it is really hard on us. They were. It was not a happy situation. They wrote her back, and said that if she wanted to go to the black school, you may. Though if you don't, you will just continue to get your children up to Cleveland because you are not coming to our school." -Edward and Annette Joe, by Jennifer Mitchell.
Video Clip Above: “The Delta Chinese community built schools in the 1920s and the 1930s, to educate their children during the restrictive era of segregation. After the War, Chinese children were more readily accepted into public schools. In the town of Boyle, Mississippi, Jim Fong, a soldier home on leave, convinced the school board to allow his younger siblings to attend school closer to home, instead of having to burden his parents with driving his brothers and sisters to the Chinese community school in Cleveland.” -From Honor and Duty: The Mississippi Delta Chinese, A Three-Part Documentary Series, narrated by E. Samantha Cheng, (C) Heritage Series, LLC, 2016. All rights reserved. 
"World War II Vets." Courtesy of Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum.
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"Biscoe Lum, in World War II. Courtesy of Alvin Gee and the Lum Family."
The Chinese Exclusion Acts were not repealed until 1943, and then only in the interests of aiding the morale of a wartime ally during World War II."- from "Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts." |
