The Boston Globe, January 18th, 1999
Helen Wong's journey of discovery took her deep into the cities of the Old South, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led bus boycotts and lunch-counter sit-ins, and where the high-school student received the message of the civil rights movement straight from those who lived it. The 17-year-old Chinatown resident learned during her trip two summers ago that civil rights wasn't just a term from the history books -- that King's message was ongoing, and that it wasn't just about relations between black and white people. Weaving King's words and actions into her own experiences, Wong came to bel...
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