“Transaction Null and Void”

Emma Wong Sing, an American-born citizen, traveled to China in 1913. When she attempted to return to Los Angeles in 1930, she was denied entry on the grounds that she had forfeited her US citizenship by marrying a Chinese citizen. Her determined struggle and the strategic (and successful) handling of her case by attorneys Y. C. Hong and A. Warner Parker illuminate the discriminatory effects of US immigration law toward women, especially toward Chinese women, in the early twentieth century. Her case tested those laws.

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Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

Southern California Quarterly ◽

10.1525/scq.2019.101.4.357 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 101 (4) ◽

pp. 357-395 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Saty Satya-Murti ◽

Jennifer Gutierrez

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Social Determinants ◽

Social Activism ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Medical Attention ◽

Community Center ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social

The Los Angeles Plaza Community Center (PCC), an early twentieth-century Los Angeles community center and clinic, published El Mexicano, a quarterly newsletter, from 1913 to 1925. The newsletter’s reports reveal how the PCC combined walk-in medical visits with broader efforts to address the overall wellness of its attendees. Available records, some with occasional clinical details, reveal the general spectrum of illnesses treated over a twelve-year span. Placed in today’s context, the medical care given at this center was simple and minimal. The social support it provided, however, was multifaceted. The center’s caring extended beyond providing medical attention to helping with education, nutrition, employment, transportation, and moral support. Thus, the social determinants of health (SDH), a prominent concern of present-day public health, was a concept already realized and practiced by these early twentieth-century Los Angeles Plaza community leaders. Such practices, although not yet nominally identified as SDH, had their beginnings in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social activism movement aiming to mitigate the social ills and inequities of emerging industrial nations. The PCC was one of the pioneers in this effort. Its concerns and successes in this area were sophisticated enough to be comparable to our current intentions and aspirations.

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Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism, Charismaticism and Neo-Prophetic Movements Journal ◽

10.38159/pecanep.2020083 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 60-66

Author(s):

Opoku Onyinah

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Holy Spirit ◽

John Xxiii ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Us ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Charismatic Renewal ◽

Pope John Xxiii ◽

Catholic Charismatic Renewal

A new set of Pentecostal renewal started in the early twentieth century leading to the proliferation of Pentecostal denominations, and renewal movements within the then existing denominations. The beginning of this Pentecostal renewal has often been linked with the Bethel Bible School, which was started by Charles Fox Parham, and amplified by William Joseph Seymour at Azusa Street, Los Angeles, in the US. This article brings another dimension of the renewal by demonstrating that, for the Catholic Charismatics the outbreak of the Holy Spirit in the early twentieth century was partly an answer to the prayer of Pope Leo XIII. In addition, the Catholic Charismatic advocates consider the Pentecostal experience, dubbed Duquesne Weekend, which led to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movements as the answer to the prayer of Pope John XXIII at the Second Vatican. The considerations of the Catholic Charismatics are presented apparently as an affirmation of the sovereignty of God over his Church and the world.

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