Sau Ung Loo Chan’s Legacy Covered in Love vs. Country AAPI Heritage Event

Sau Ung Loo Chan was one of the first Asian Americans to attend Yale Law School. Her story is one of the most remarkable in American legal history. A U.S. citizen by birthright, Chan fell in love with a man who was also born in the United States. He could not prove his birthright, however, because family circumstances and the destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake left his records unverifiable. The government refused to recognize him as a citizen.