In 1975, Norman Wong drove with his wife to Vancouver, British Columbia, in search of a grandfather he had never met. Wong is of Japanese and Chinese descent. But whenever he asked his father about their Chinese ancestry, his dad wouldn’t or couldn’t say much. “It brought tears to his eyes,” recalled Wong, now 74. “That was a history he didn’t readily share.” Staying at an acquaintance’s home in Vancouver, Wong and his wife, Maureen, trawled libraries, searching for any trace of a man who his father last heard was in the city. But “there was no record of him,” Wong said. The newlyweds returned home to San Francisco, disappointed. It would take almost 15 years for both Wong and his father to learn the full story — that the S.F.-born Wong Kim Ark was the subject of a landmark 1898 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established birthright citizenship for anyone born on American soil. Read more at the link in our bio. 🎥: sarahrosemcgrew, joytakesphotos #sanfrancisco #sf #history #calif...