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HH: As far as your life in Philadelphia is concerned, how would you describe the level of acceptance or discrimination that you experienced here in Philadelphia?

HU: Well, you know, after, I don't know when after I started at Westinghouse, that somebody told me that even after I was accepted for employment office there, but then there was a question of who was I going to work, which department I was going to work in, even in the drafting area. They have what they call squad leaders. They had to go to all the squad leaders, find out who would accept me. And I didn't know that until way later, that this particular squad leader was, he was open minded about accepting me. I didn't think I would have any problem that way.

HH: How about as far as housing? Did you experience any kind of --

HU: Well, yeah. In housing, we had a problem because we bought a, when we first started, we were living in a housing, federal housing project. And then from there, we went to Ridley Park, we bought a house there. Well, before we bought that house, we were looking at another house in the small, very small development. And we put our down payment down and then a week later, they told us that... let's see, what was the reason they said that we're not allowed to sell to Japanese Americans or something like that. And so we took back our, or let other people would object to having us in that neighborhood. We got that sort of thing in a couple places where we went and tried to buy a house. But we finally found a house in Ridley Park. And we lived there, I was there about five years, and then we found a place in Chester County in Westtown Township, and we lived there for thirty-nine years and we had no problems as far as housing.

HH: As far as the education of your children are concerned, did your children experience any kind of discrimination?

HU: No, no. They were all well-accepted.

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