Lam, Marie
name: label: Collection Interviewer
content: Moniz, Amanda B.
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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content: Philanthropy Oral History Collection
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content: Philanthropy Oral History Collection / Born-Digital Interviews
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content: 72.38 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 01:15:23, audio/mp3)
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content: 2018-09-28
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content: Item NMAH-AC1582-BDA0005
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Marie Lam, board member of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, begins her interview with her family's immigration story from Hong Kong to San Francisco in the 1960s.  Lam recounts how her move to Manhattan, New York initiated her volunteer work with Chinatown's Chinese American Planning Council tutoring children and teaching citizenship classes to immigrants. Given her educational background in social work, Lam became central in helping address various injustices with senior citizens, abused children, and unequal health services to Asian American communities. Lam discusses her involvement and process in organizing free health fairs which eventually served as the foundation for the nationally recognized Charles B. Wang Community Health Center.