In 1895, as he was coming back from a visit to China, he was detained at the port of San Francisco. "They say, look, you might have been born in San Francisco, but that doesn't make you a U.S ...

Ark was born in San Francisco to immigrant parents. In 1895, he was traveling from China back home when he was denied re-entry at the Port of San Francisco. Officials claimed he was not a citizen ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10. -- Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs of New-York have decided to make San Francisco their home for the future. Mr. Oelrichs announces that he has made business arrangements for ...

In 1895, a San Francisco-born Chinese American was denied entry back to the United States due to the Chinese Exclusion Act that was in effect back then. Wong Kim Ark challenged his denial back ...