Herlinda Wong Chew

Summary:  Chinese El Pasoan immigrant activist/ grocery store owner and expert in immigration issues in the 1920s-1930s.  She worked to get Chinese Mexican refugees of the Mexican Revolution into El Paso.

Borderlands Sources

Handbook of Texas Online

Library Catalogs

• EPCC Online Catalog

  • The Asian Texans  NW Ref REF F386.T493 2004  p. 21, 22-24

• UTEP Library Catalog

• El Paso Public Library Catalog

• NMSU Library Catalog (especially if you are researching a New Mexico topic)

Books on Reserve (list of standard books)

Password (Journal of EP Historical Society) and its Archives

• Herlinda Wong Chew: El Paso Trailblazer," art. by Sarah E. John, : xxxvii, 41
• Archives:  has her name as Hermalinda Chew Photo: 034-1983-070 same picture that is in Asian Texans book.
   

Google Books

• Migration quicksand : immigration law and immigration advocates at the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border crossing, 1933-1941 PhD Thesis at UTEP mentioned on page 273

Google search:

• Texas Observer article (in 2nd half of the article)

EPPL: Border Heritage Center

• Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry in their vertical file.  This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic.
   
• In addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available. You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.

UTEP Library's Special Collections Department

UTEP's Institute of Oral History

• LEONG, Herlinda  (Mrs. Chew's daughter) No. 257   Transcript available in Special Collections (UTEP Library)

Local and National Newspapers

Library of Congress Memory Project

page compiled by Rachel Murphree
Last updated 01/30/2008