Editing Wing Luke (section)

=== Family background and upbringing ===
Luke was born on February 18, 1925, in a small town near [[Guangzhou|Canton]] (modern Guangzhou). His grandfather had run a [[laundry]] in Seattle, but [[Chinese Exclusion Act|exclusion laws]] forced Luke's father to return to China.<ref name="seattle times 80th">{{cite news |last=Stripling |first=Sherry |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/wing-luke-the-man-behind-the-museum/ |title=Wing Luke: the man behind the museum |work=Seattle Times |publisher=The Seattle Times Company |date=2005-02-25 |accessdate=2015-09-20 }}</ref> When Luke was five, his family moved to the [[United States]],{{Citation needed|date=September 2015}} but he did not settle in [[Seattle]] until 1931, at the age of six.<ref name="seattle times 80th" /> Upon their arrival in Seattle, the family saved to open a modest laundry and grocery store{{Citation needed|date=September 2015}} in the [[University District, Seattle, Washington|University District]].<ref name="Historylinkbio">{{cite web |work=HistoryLink.org |title=Luke, Wing (1925-1965) |url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2047 |publisher=HistoryLink |location=Seattle, WA |accessdate=2015-09-20 }}</ref> Luke was the oldest of six children.<ref name="seattle times museum">{{cite news |last=Ramirez |first=Marc |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wing-lukes-vision-lives-in-new-museum/ |title=Wing Luke's vision lives in new museum |work=Seattle Times |publisher=The Seattle Times Company |date=2008-05-25 |accessdate=2015-09-20 }}</ref>

While in school, Luke was often teased for his Chinese origins and on multiple occasions got into physical confrontations with bullies. After the outbreak of World War II, Luke's family was evicted from their apartment by their landlady for looking Japanese, which would instill in Luke a fire for social activism for the rest of his life.<ref name="seattle times museum" /> However, he eventually became the [[Roosevelt High School (Seattle)|Roosevelt High School]] student body president. In 1944, his grades and civic activities earned him an invitation as a high school consultant for a White House Conference on juvenile problems, though Luke's induction into the army would prevent him from attending. <ref name="Historylinkbio" />