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100 years ago

Even after Wong Kim Ark successfully took his case to the Supreme Court 125 years ago, Asian Americans struggled to receive recognition as U.S. citizens

Charles Vernon Eddy was born in Winchester on September 13, 1877. He was the son of Florence Alberta “Bertie” Snapp Eddy and James Clarkson Eddy, a millwright who died of tuberculosis in 1888. He and his brother established a printing business in 1892 while students at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, from which Eddy graduated in 1896. He married Katharine Graham Kurtz on March 22, 1905. They had three sons, one of whom died in infancy. The Eddy Press, as the business was later named, expande...

Detained aboard steamers in the San Francisco Bay for months, Wong Kim Ark pursued his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the precedent for birthright...