Liang Family Immigration Documents, 1950 - 1959

Sub-Series

Identifier: 2019.004

Staff Only

Dates

1950 - 1959

Conditions Governing Access

This Collections is unrestricted

Conditions Governing Use

For reference use only; not for reproduction, distribution, or deposit in another collection. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the MOCA Collections department. If publishing, cite: Liang Family Immigration Documents Collection , Museum of Chinese in America.

Biographical / Historical

During the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943) many Chinese illegally immigrated to the United States as paper sons. These paper sons used fake documents stating that they were related to Us citizens of Chinese descent. In 1956, after the exclusion act was repealed the United States Immigration and Naturalization Services started their Chinese Confession Program in the wake of the red scare.

This confession program allowed Chinese that entered the US illegally to confess and in return they would be shown leniency. The papers in this digital collection appear to be a series of hand written oral confessions from Leung Gock, Liang He along with other family documents.

Extent

2.54 Gigabytes (80 digital images scanned at 600dpi. 31 images are from hand written oral confessions while the other 49 consitst of photographs, personal writings, and various memorabilia from the families trip to the US. )

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Arrangement

There is no formal arrngement for this collection.

General

This project and finding aid were undertaken with grant assistance from the National Historic Publication and Records Commission (NHPRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).