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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Kenneth Y. Fung papers
Creator:
Fung, Kenneth Y.
Identifier/Call Number: mssFung
Physical Description:
12.73 Linear Feet
(15 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1890-2004
Date (bulk): 1915-1950
Abstract: Papers of San Francisco based Chinese American immigration attorney Kenneth Y. Fung.
Language of Material: Materials are in English and Chinese.
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[Identification of item]. Kenneth Y. Fung papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Louella Fung, December 2017.
Kenneth Y. Fung (1899-1952) was born Yee Kwai Fung, in San Francisco, California, in September 1899. Fung was an immigration
attorney based in San Francisco. He was president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance from 1947 to 1949. In 1928, he
testified before Congress, about H. R. 6974, and the unequal treatment of Chinese American spouses under the American immigration
system. Fung was a friend and colleague of You Chung (Y. C.) Hong, an immigration attorney in Los Angeles, California. Fung
married Chan Yuen Ying (approximately 1902-1987), in China, in June 1922; they had five children: Robert (born 1923), Sherman
(born 1925), Wellington (1927-1928), Herbert (born 1929), and Phyllis (born 1930). Kenneth Y. Fung died in September 1952
in San Francisco.
This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Kenneth Y. Fung. These papers include personal and business
correspondence (including letters by immigration lawyer Y. C. Hong and Chinese rights activist, educator, and newspaper editor
Walter U. Lum), documents, notes, immigration case files, notebooks, sympathy cards, newspaper clippings, copies of U.S. Senate
bills, photographs and negatives, books, objects, and art, from 1890 to 2004 and the bulk covering 1915 to Fung's death in
1952. Also included are materials related to the Chinese American Citizens Alliance from 1923 to 1943. The majority of the
collection deals with Fung's immigration work as a lawyer and Chinese Americans' rights advocacy, but a lot of the collection
is personal in nature and provides details about his personal life and the Fung family and their lives in San Francisco, Chinatown,
and the surrounding Bay Area of California.
Processed by Brooke M. Black, June 2023.
Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence, documents, and notebooks; 2. Photographs; 3. Books, objects, and art.
During processing in May 2023, approximately 1 linear foot of household items were removed from the collection by Brooke M.
Black and Li Wei Yang because they were deemed out of scope and of no research value.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Calligraphy, Chinese
Chinese Americans -- Societies, etc.
Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Archives
Emigration and immigration law -- United States
Immigration advocates -- California
California -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Documents.
Letters (correspondence)
Notebooks
Personal papers
Photographs
Professional papers.
Fung, Kenneth Y.
Fung, Sherman
Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935
Hong, You Chung, 1898-1977
Lum, Walter U.
Chinese American Citizens Alliance