Bo-Gay Tong Salvador : Stanford Asian American Pacific Islander Oral History Project

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Abstract: Bo-Gay Tong Salvador (AB Psychology, 1971) describes growing up in the mostly white community of Northridge, California, where she was an only child with little knowledge of her family’s history. She explains how she became more aware of her ethnic identity once she came to Stanford and met other Asian American students. She shares memories of the Chinese Students Association and the founding of the Asian American Student Alliance (AASA), recalling early meetings, differing opinions within the community, and events that AASA sponsored, including a performance by Chris Iijima and Nobuko Miyamoto. She describes how, after graduation, she was introduced to Asian American activists in Los Angeles and how that led to a job with ABC Pride (Asian, Black, and Chicano Pride) where she helped develop ethnic studies curriculum for elementary school children. She speaks about her own family’s history and cofounding the Chinese Family History Group where she has enjoyed a supportive community of those eager to research and write about their family stories.

Type of resource	text
Extent	1 text file
Place	Stanford (Calif.)
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society
Date created	August 8, 2023
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital

Interviewee	Salvador, Bo-Gay Tong
Creator	Salvador, Bo-Gay Tong
Interviewer	Tran, Britney
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Asian American college students
Genre	Interview

Biographical Profile	Bo-Gay Tong Salvador, AB Psychology, 1971; MLS, UCLA, 1980, is a founding member of the Stanford Asian American Student Alliance (est. 1969). She is a sixth-generation Chinese American and a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. After graduation from Stanford, she became co-director of Asian Pride, a project of the EPIC program at Cal State Los Angeles that developed and taught Asian American culture and history to elementary school children in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She spent most of her career as a systems librarian for UCLA Libraries. She is also a founding member of the Chinese Family History Group, a non-profit organization that assists those with Chinese ancestry to research and record their family stories.
Video	Title Video
Finding Aid	Title Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cy013jx4786
Location	SC1617
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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