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Remembering the past

But San Francisco advocates are working to ensure that Wong’s memory will never be forgotten.

In San Francisco’s Chinatown – the oldest in the US – organizers recently unveiled a mural depicting Wong under the slogan, “I am American.” It was recorded at his birthplace, 751 Sacramento Street.

A few blocks away, Wong’s explosion is set up at the Nam Kue Chinese School, which teaches children about Chinese culture.

Vincent Pan, executive director of the San Francisco nonprofit Chinese for Affirmative Action, is one of those who oppose Trump’s birth control law.

Born to immigrant parents, he considers himself one of the beneficiaries of Wong’s Supreme Court case.

Pan said: “It’s easy to isolate ourselves when we think of ourselves as pages in a history book.

Community projects like the mural and the statue, he added, would help keep Wong’s legacy alive.

“It is a necessary self-examination when we begin to believe that these names are imaginary,” Pan said. “The people who wrote our history are real people.”

Sandra and her brother Norman Wong, one of Wong’s great-grandsons, have also stepped forward as spokespeople.

Sandra describes herself as a private person, who likes to avoid the cameras. But last week, at the unveiling of the mural, he stood in front of the media in Chinatown to celebrate his grandfather and the community around him.

“You have to come together and fight for freedom,” Sandra said. “He did it before because, being (a) simple, stable person – it wouldn’t have happened automatically.”

Growing up, she remembers more of her Japanese mother’s history in America than her Chinese father’s background. His father was far away.

Sandra explained: “I feel lost because my father is not there, so we didn’t like Chinese culture very much.

Still, he remembers walking through Chinatown with his father shortly before he died, thinking, “You know, god, I wish I could connect with San Francisco and all that.”

“I didn’t know, a few years later,” he said, “what it would turn out to be.”