Pershing Wong Standing in Front of Automobile – 29.04.IMG.017_SAAPI.PershingWongByHisCar.1938.DSU.mcd.m374.070

Pershing Wong stands in front of a car in 1938 in Rosedale, Mississippi. As for African Americans, cars provided a means for transportation that avoided segregated waiting rooms and transport and often, for Asian Americans, the very localized question of which room or seats to use.

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