San Francisco's Chinatown During the Civil Rights Era

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=649

Chinese-American author William Poy Lee recounts his participation in a 1968 civil rights march through the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown.

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William Poy Lee talks about "The Eighth Promise."

This is an evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son - and the Chinese-American experience - while growing up in the housing projects of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s and 70s. Gloria Steinem says "One of the very few books that completely conveys a life as lived from the inside and makes us as readers feel we are living it too." - Book Passage

William Poy Lee graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture, emphasis on urban design and planning from the University of California in Berkeley and completed his juris doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California.

He has been a licensed California attorney since 1979 and has enjoyed a career as an international banking attorney with Bank of America and as an advertising co-principal serving Fortune 100 corporations.

"The Eighth Promise" is his first book.

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[danielcooper1000]

We can never find justice at the hands of corrupt judges. (See YouTube videos) Judge to Judge on Illegal Payments to Judges / Evil Triangle of Court Corruption / Richard Fine / Dr Shirley Moore /SBX 211. The fight to end this title wave of corruption in our country must start with the corrupt judges. We can not bring evidence of corruption to corrupt judges. Los Angeles Superior Court judges are illegally and unconstitutionally taking 50,000.00 each for a total of 23 million per year.

[ekctaurus1]

it's easy to deflect this by changing the general word "Chinese" to Toisan or Toisan-American. We are chinese people. And a very hard working bunch.

My family has a house there as well. And the more I speak about this the more people I know are from the same village. It's all the old homes in China that has been converted to a museum. No one dares say that this is my families house.

[minipiggie1214]

you ignorant moron ...

[cutelittleanimegirl]

You have to remember that Chinese does not have the same opinions and beliefs as Americans. Just like those protestors for Tibet independence, Chinese Americans have the rights to protest against them. It doesn't mean that they only have compassion for themselves. It's just a difference of opinion.

[swordofpakistan]

The sad thing is the Chinese turn out in force to protest against Tibetan protests from 'Çhinatowns' all over the world.The Chinese immigrant communnity and the Taiwanese lack of commpassion for anyone but themselves is nothing to be proud of.

[davevontexas]

daiseh, I agree. A friend of mine was ethnically Kazakstani, and he told me these horror stories about going to school in Bejing and getting segregated out of the more respectable science and engineering majors because he was a minority. Not like we do here.

Oh, wait... damn.

[daiseh]

look china and the united states are two completely different countries. the united states parades equality among all men while china is a communist bureaucracy which is 98% han chinese and does not have those same values as the United States

[ttiiyy]

The segregation laws were indeed horrible. But even without them, Chinese immigrants would have wanted to form some sort of union anyway.

More importantly, Chinese sometimes cannot take everything for granted in the United States. After all, even today, it is very very hard for any American, especially a WHITE one, to become a school principal in China.

I have high respect for hard working Chinese Americans, but I think there is clearly a double standard here.