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{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
Did you start spending time, or visiting, DC's China Town?

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{SPEAKER name="Esther Chow (Interviewee)"}
Oh from the very beginning. Yeah, when I first arrived, uh, and because of my husband, I--I cushioned mere partisters so we was looking for a church to go, and I was told there is a Chinese community church, and in China town. So we came there, we went there for a visit and met the minister and so--

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{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
Revenrend CC Hall?

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{SPEAKER name="Esther Chow (Interviewee)"}
No, uh, he retired, so, Reverend Huang who, uh, who were there in 1973-74 and then he left, and then reference Cho and then Cho came and his wife. Both of them were my classmates, at-at Chinese University at Hong-Kong and so as a resolute, I end up going to Chinese community church to support them. And then um I start to document the history of the church and-and met many community uh um leaders and residents, uh. Not being a resident of, in China town but being somebody who lived close by and then we basically um commuted there um weekly.

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{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
On Sundays?

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{SPEAKER name="Esther Chow (Interviewee)"}
Yeah Sunday and at that time, China town had grocery store and a restaurant, good restaurant [[laughter]] so we, it is a special treat for many families uh way back in 1970s and that was a great time when the group of the Chinese youth uh came out being active to, to organize the Asian-American uh communities and the volleyball, basketball team and um and--and the music event, doing for major uh occasions, and then later on the protest against the metro, the building of metro and then the building of the Martin Luther King Library because at that time, China did--houses belonged to China town residence, near the location of nine, eight and nine on the uh [[crosstalk]]

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{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
H?

{SPEAKER name="Esther Chow (Interviewee)"}
Yeah, H street. So because the building of the metro and the Martin Luther King uh, uh Library, so many Chinese were um--

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{SPEAKER name="Esther Chow (Interviewee)"} {SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}