The stories of 12 distinguished Oakland Chinese American pioneers are told in a display in the lobby of main building at 7th & Harrison Streets. They include an industrialist, an herbalist, a dentist, a minister, a newspaper founder, and the first woman barber.

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William Wong was born and grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown. He went on to a distinguished journalism career (The Wall Street Journal, Oakland Tribune, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer). He is the author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America (Temple University Press, 2001) and Images of America: Oakland’s Chinatown (Arcadia Publishing Co., 2004).

Visit his web sites, http://www.yellowjournalist.com and http://www.oaklandchinatownhistory.org.