This photo depicts members of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance who traveled to Washington D. C. to testify before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in the House of Representatives. Walter U. Lum is the first person from the right on the first row; Y. C. Hong is the second person from the right on the front row. Kenneth Y. Fung is the first person from the right on the second row. Albert T. Quon is next to Fung on the second row; he is wearing glasses and is standing behind Y.C. Hong. Henry Lowe is the first person from the left in the second row. Y. C. Hong at the time was president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. Kenneth Y. Fung was the Executive Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. The congressional hearing was about H. R. 6974, which is a bill introduced by Rep. L. C. Dyer to permit the admission, as non-quota immigrants, of certain alien wives and children of United States citizens. Hong family papers. The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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