Figures & data
Figure 1 Chinese population and Chinese grocery stores in Mississippi, 1952. Data source: 1960 U.S. Census, Social Explorer; Mississippi State County Boundaries Map, U.S. Census TIGER/Line shapefiles. Tri-State Chinese Directory of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, published in 1952 by the Chinese Commercial Directory Service Bureau, Greenwood, Mississippi. From the personal collection of the Dunn Family, Memphis, TN.
Figure 2 Chinese population and Chinese grocery stores in Arkansas, 1952. Data source: 1960 U.S. Census, Social Explorer; Arkansas State County Boundaries Map, U.S. Census TIGER/Line shapefiles. Tri-State Chinese Directory of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, published in 1952 by the Chinese Commercial Directory Service Bureau, Greenwood, Mississippi. From the personal collection of the Dunn Family, Memphis, TN.
Figure 3 Chinese grocery stores in Memphis, 1952. Data source: U.S. Census 1950, Social Explorer. Tri-State Chinese Directory of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, published in 1952 by the Chinese Commercial Directory Service Bureau, Greenwood, Mississippi. From the personal collection of the Dunn Family, Memphis, TN.
Figure 4 The Original Min Sang & Co. grocery store, Greenville, Mississippi, late 1920s. Photo courtesy of Frieda Seu Quon.
Figure 5 The Seu Brothers and their children inside the Min Sang & Co. grocery store, Greenville, Mississippi, late 1940s. The store was connected to the “living quarter” through a door at the back. Photo courtesy of Frieda Seu Quon.
Figure 6 The front store entrance of the Min Sang & Co. grocery store, Greenville, Mississippi, 2016. Photo by the author.
Figure 7 The “living quarter” behind the Min Sang & Co. grocery store, Greenville, Mississippi, 2016. Photo by the author.
