WHO IS CORKY LEE? GOOGLE DOODLE HONORS CHINESE AMERICAN ICON

With its May 5 illustration, Google Doodle is paying tribute to the famous Chinese-American photographer Corky Lee.

When you listen to stories about the Chinese-American community, you won't hear the name Corky Lee very often. However, his contribution has had a significant impact on a lot of people's lives.

In recognition of the photographer's contributions to the people of New York, May 5 was designated as "Corky Lee Day" in 1988.

We examine Corky's various contributions and accomplishments, as well as his Google Doodle, in greater depth.

Corky Lee, who is he?

Corky was an activist, photographer, journalist, and Chinese-American.

He was brought into the world in 1947 in New York to Chinese settler guardians.

He earned a degree in American studies at college. Corky was influenced by well-known fashion photographer Bill Cunningham at the beginning of his career.

He had begun documenting events in Chinatown in Manhattan. Most of his subjects were Asian Americans from the Pacific Islands (AAPI). Corky, a journalist, documented their celebrations, parades, and protests. His work shed light on the community's achievements as well as its struggles.

In 1975, he took a picture of police dragging Peter Yew, a young Chinese-American boy, making it one of his most iconic images. Corky's photo of the episode spread all over.

Huge number of Chinatown inhabitants appeared on the roads seven days after the fact. They began to demonstrate against the brutality of the police in their neighborhood.

Corky recreated the photograph taken at the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 2014. He contacted the relatives of the Chinese workers who attempted to assemble the railroad however were excluded from the 1869 picture.