Remembering History: 1910, Tye Leung Schulze was hired as the first Chinese federal civil servant at the Angel Island Immigration Station, where she met her future husband, Charles Schulze. At the time they had to travel to Washington State to marry because California did not allow marriages between Chinese and white Americans. In 1912, Tye voted in the presidential primaries and became “the first Chinese woman in the history of the world to exercise the electoral franchise.” (SF Examiner May 12, 1912)

1910, Tye Leung Schulze was hired as the first Chinese federal civil servant at the Angel Island Immigration Station, where she met her future husband, Charles Schulze. At the time they had to travel to Washington State to marry because California did not allow marriages between Chinese and white Americans. In 1912, Tye voted in the presidential primaries and became “the first Chinese woman in the history of the world to exercise the electoral franchise.” (SF Examiner May 12, 1912)

1910, Tye Leung Schulze was hired as the first Chinese federal civil servant at the Angel Island Immigration Station, where she met her future husband, Charles Schulze. At the time they had to travel to Washington State to marry because California did not allow marriages between Chinese and white Americans. In 1912, Tye voted in the presidential primaries and became “the first Chinese woman in the history of the world to exercise the electoral franchise.” (SF Examiner May 12, 1912)