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Suzanne Lee & Howard Wong

From the Collections: Pain and Promise: Remembering the Fight for School Integration | The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Experience


In the summer of 1974, Suzanne Lee was a first-year teacher living in Boston’s Chinatown and Howard Wong was an 11-year-old middle schooler. They remembered when the notice for desegregation first came, and how it eventually led to a Chinese student boycott of Boston schools.

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