Hong yen chang biography
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Overview
Hong Yen Chang was reportedly the first Chinese immigrant to earn a law degree in the United States and the first to be licensed to practice law in any state. Yet discriminatory state and federal laws kept him from joining the California bar.
Hong yen chang biography
APALSA now works to right this historic wrong and gain Mr. Chang&#;s posthumous admittance to the California state bar.
Hong Yen Chang&#;s BackgroundIn , thirteen-year-old Hong Yen Chang arrived in the United States as part of the Chinese Educational Mission, a program designed to teach Chinese youth about Western culture.
Mr. Chang attended Hartford Public High School in Connecticut and then the exclusive Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduating in , Mr. Chang attended Yale College (now Yale University). When the Chinese government cancelled the Mission in , Mr.
Chang was forced to suspend his studies at Yale and return to China.
Nevertheless, Mr. Change came back to the United States and enrolled in Columbia L