He's pointing at the location where Wong Kim Ark was born. His life became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today. Wong Kim Ark was born to Chinese parents, who like many Chinese ...

I THINK HE WAS MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER. HE’S TALKING ABOUT WONG KIM ARK, A PART OF HIS FAMILY HISTORY HE LEARNED LATER IN LIFE FROM HIS OWN FATHER. WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT, I DIDN’T KNOW HOW ...

For San Francisco, it means the story of Wong Kim Ark is more relevant than ever. He was a Chinese man born in the city’s Chinatown, whose case would go on to set the precedent for who gets to ...

A 20-year-old man named Wong Kim Ark, born and living in San Francisco's Chinatown, was denied reentry into the country after a visit to China on the basis of the Chinese Exclusionary Act.

Wong Kim Ark was born around 1870 in San Francisco’s Chinatown. After moving back to China, he hoped to return, but was barred by the Chinese Exclusion Act; the U.S. did not consider him a citizen.

The court noted that Wong Kim Ark’s parents had at the time “a permanent domicil and residence in the United States,” yet the court did not condition its interpretation of the 14th Amendment ...

In 1898, United States v. Wong Kim Ark established that people born in the U.S. are entitled to citizenship, even if their parents are not. The case involved a man born in the U.S. to Chinese parents.