People in the records
12 people, with their names spelled as they appear in print.
Laundry owners, merchants, association officers, travellers, and a schoolgirl appear here through English-language newspapers and court records.
Sam Lee
Advertised a laundry in the Greenwood Commonwealth. Forty-three printings survive, August 1898 to December 1899: the longest run in the collection.
SAM LEE'S CHINESE LAUNDRY
· Sam Lee advertises laundry servicesHop Long
A laundry on Depot Street, next door to McDaniel's barber shop. Phone 198.
HOP LONG
· Hop Long advertises laundry servicesSam Lum
A hand laundry opposite the court house. Shirts 10c, two collars 5c.
SAM LUM
· Sam Lum advertises laundry servicesCharlie Lee
A hand laundry at 119 North Market Street, with a nine-line price list.
CHARLIE LEE
· Charlie Lee advertises laundry servicesGeo. Wong
A laundry in the H. Frishman Block on Main Street, soliciting custom from adjoining counties.
GEO. WONG'S
· Geo Wong advertises laundry servicesJoe Monton
Named first president of the Tri-State Chinese Merchants association, organised at a meeting in Memphis.
Joe Monton
· Dundee Man First Tri-State Chinese Union PresidentMartha Lum
A pupil. The circuit court ordered Rosedale Consolidated High School to admit her. The state appealed, and won.
Martha Lum
· The circuit court directs Martha Lum’s admissionS. W. Lee
Drove from Alligator to Memphis for the Tri-State Chinese Merchants Association.
S. W. Lee
· Tri-State Chinese Merchants Association attendance noticeMrs. S. W. Lee
Made the same journey, recorded only through her husband's name. Whatever she was called is not in this archive.
Mrs. S. W. Lee
· Tri-State Chinese Merchants Association attendance noticeCurtis Lee
Travelled with them. The notice does not say how they were related.
Curtis Lee
· Tri-State Chinese Merchants Association attendance noticeJ. K. Young
Wrote to the clerk of the Supreme Court for two copies of the printed record, on United Chinese Merchants' Association letterhead, signing as executive secretary.
J. K. Young
· J. K. Young letter on United Chinese Merchants' Association letterheadGong Lum
Martha's father, and the named petitioner. The case carries his name into every law report that has cited it since.
Gong Lum
· Gong Lum v. Rice
About the names
The Memphis notice of 3 August 1920 runs on past the sentence transcribed here, listing the association's other officers and their towns. Those names are legible in the crop but not in the excerpt, so they are not in this register. Transcribing them is work a reader could do, and check. Read the image.
The 1903 farmer account runs to eight printings and never names the man. The Bolivar petition names the trustees who excluded Martha Lum, but the passage published here elides them; they are in the document image. Anyone who never advertised, went to court, or travelled to a Memphis banquet is outside this small register.