Mr. Wong, Chinese-Mexican-American

Book excerpt: This is the story about a boy who against the odds made it from below the poverty line and into the middle class. Mr. Wong is middle child in a racially and culturally mixed family of seven children. He lived and worked on a California farm prior to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Worker's Movement. Mr. Wong lived through the 1965 Watts Riots. H e was Student Body President during the Chicano Student Walkouts in East Los Angeles. Mr. Wong is also Vietnam Era Veteran. Mr. Wong proudly claims that his greatest achievement is to have seen his student learn English.