Series III. Legan Wong Work Files, 1969-2009, inclusive; 1970-1990, bulk

This series includes material on Legan Wong's work on development of Asian American Studies classes, music production, and his involvement in activist and local cultural organizations in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.

This series contains source material, lecture notes, course outlines, and correspondence related to Wong's development of college classes on the Asian American experience that he created and taught at Queens College and Hunter College in the 1970s. General research files and conference material on Asian American Studies are also in this series.

Wong was involved in performance groups in the 1970s and 1980s including Soh Daiko, a folk music drum group, and the Asian Tactical Theater. These files typically include performance programs and schedules, financial reports, promotional material, news clippings, correspondence, notes, and meeting minutes. Wong was also on Team Ronin in the Asian American Softball League of New York in the late 1970s. Team material in this series includes member identification cards with photographs, schedules, correspondence, and rosters.

This series contains a small amount of files on Wong's involvement in the 1980s as a founding member of East West World Records, which was founded to provide recording opportunities for Asian American artists. These files include concert promotional material, news clippings, letterhead, financial funding, and founding documentation. This series also includes two of the record albums the company produced: Visions, and Back to Back.

Newsclippings, newsletters, and promotional material for various political groups in which Wong was involved include the Asian Americans for Equal Employment (AAFEE) and Asian in the Spirit of the Indochinese (ASI) are also in this series.