An excerpt: "What the students wanted was a relevant program of studies that would eventually serve the needs and interests of average working people in the community. [...] The significance of these events at City College cannot be isolated from the background of the Asian students. In New York City there are perhaps 70,000 Chinese residing on the Lower East Side, including Chinatown proper. There are an additional 50,000 Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans and other Asians throughout the rest of the metropolitan area.
Most of the students from Chinatown who attend college commute to C.C.N.Y. Because of its tuition-free policy and its strong engineering and science programs, the college has become a route for Chinatown youth to gain middle-class privileges."
Excerpt: "The accompanying comic strips were specially created for Bridge Magazine by Morrie Turner, the nation's first Black syndicated cartoonist depicting ethnic minorities as they are. From blacks to Indians to Asians, Mr. Turner's 'Wee Pals' column has broken the stereotyped images of ethnic minorities in America. mr. Turner's 'George' marks the breakthrough of a cartoonist's portrayal of an Asian child as a regular column. [...]
Morrie Turner was born December 11, 1923, and raised in Oakland, California. Mr. Turner still lives in Oakland. He is married and has one son, also married. He completed high school but wishes he had gone to college. Mrs. Turner tries to stress the value of education by going to schools to talk to children. He teaches at Laney Junior College and the College of San Mateo, as he puts it, 'to maybe turn somebody on to cartooning.'
