Authors: Ann Elizabeth Chan

Date: Time Period: 1950's

Subject: Discrimination in housing | Suburbs | Chinese Americans | Emigration and immigration

Type: Oral history

Identifier: aql:18452

Description: Ann Elizabeth Chan recalls leaving Manhattan's Chinatown and moving to Long Island in the 1950s with her husband and brother. The family is met with rising property costs as well as restrictive housin ... More

Authors: Ann Elizabeth Chan

Date: Time Period: 1950's

Subject: Chinese Americans | Emigration and immigration | Chan, Ann Elizabeth

Type: Oral history

Identifier: aql:18451

Description: Ann Elizabeth Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1935. She immigrated to America with a foster family who settled on White Plains Road in the Bronx, where her foster parents opened up a laundromat and oper ... More