| 词条 | Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee |
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| name = Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee |image = Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee voting in 1911 (cropped).jpg | birth_date = October 21, 1886 | death_date = October 5, 1993 | birth_place = Portland, Oregon | death_place = Alameda, California }} Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee (October 21, 1886 – October 5, 1993) was the first Chinese American woman to register to vote in the United States. She registered to vote on November 8, 1911 in California following the passage of Proposition 4 in California, nine years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. BiographyClara Elizabeth (Yee Miew) Chan was born October 21, 1886 in Portland Oregon. She was the daughter of the Methodist Rev. Chan Hon Fun (Chan Hon Fan) and Ow Muck Gay.[1] The Rev. Chan Hon Fun was the pastor of the Chinese Community Methodist Church of Oakland in Oakland Chinatown from 1900 to 1909. She was married to Charles Goodall Lee, the first licensed Chinese American dentist in the United States.[1] Clara registered to vote at the Alameda County courthouse on November 8, 1911.[2] Clara was a founder of the Chinese Women's Jeleab (self reliance) Association, created in 1913.[3] The association promoted women's rights in both the U.S. and China. She was a member of the YWCA and the Fidelis Coterie club.[4] Clara died October 5, 1993 in Alameda, California and is interred in Oakland. See also
References1. ^{{cite web |title=Clara Elizabeth and Charles Goodall Lee |url=http://chinesecommunityumc.org/history/We%20Are%20the%20Church/Charles%20and%20Clara%20Popup.html |website=Chinese Community United Methodist Church |accessdate=3 February 2019}} 2. ^{{cite web |last1=Yu |first1=Christina |title=Chinese American Citizens Alliance -- Oakland Lodge |url=http://www.cacaoakland.org/tx/oaklandlodgehist.html |website=www.cacaoakland.org |accessdate=3 February 2019}} 3. ^{{cite book |last1=Keller |first1=Rosemary Skinner |title=Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America, Vol. 1 |date=2006 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0253346851 |page=500}} 4. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Young |first1=Judy |title=Unbound feet : a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco |date=1995 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0520088670 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MbcwDwAAQBAJ}}
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