Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, founded as The Chinese School and was once named Oriental Public School, was a public school located in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. It was initially set up in 1859 as a segregated school for schoolchildren of Chinese descent, part of the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States that arose in th…
Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, founded as The Chinese School and was once named Oriental Public School, was a public school located in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. It was initially set up in 1859 as a segregated school for schoolchildren of Chinese descent, part of the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States that arose in the late 1800s. The school has been renamed a number of times, most recently in 1998 to its current name in honor of the city's first Chinese-American supervisor.
Former name: The Chinese School · (1859–1906) · Oriental Public School · (1906–24) · Commodore Stockton Elementary School · (1924–98)
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