Wong immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong when she was 18 and attended Briar Cliff University in Iowa before receiving her master’s degree in social work from Washington University in St. Louis, the letter said. She worked as a social worker in Chicago before founding the service league with her husband, Albert, and a group of others who sought to teach English to Chinese immigrants.
Bernie Wong, founder of the Chinese American Service League, dies: ‘We’ve really lost an advocate and trailblazer’
