Chinatown Museum Foundation monthly public lecture will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2003 12:30-1:30 pm at Chicago Chinatown Public Library 2353 South Wentworth Ave Chicago, IL 60616. The topic is "Midwestern Pioneers: Chicago's Moy Family Association," by Gene Chung Ngai Moy, M.A. (UCLA). Many historians believe that the earliest Chinese in Chicago was a Moy from Toisan, Guangdong. The Moy Association itself gives the date of the clan members' earliest passage to America as the 1880s. Whenever they first arrived, the Moys without doubt became the largest and the most important Chinese clan in Chicago. Their role in building the pre-20th century Chinatown on Clark Street and then later on Cermak Avenue cannot be underestimated. The speakers will examine the early phase of the Moys' history in light of their social and political activities. Mr. Gene Moy grew up in Chicago Chinatown and wrote his master's degree thesis on Chicago Chinatown history.