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In the U.S., he lived mostly in the East and Midwest, traveling and lecturing. During this time anti-Chinese sentiment was rampant. Wong represented Chinese culture, defending Chinese from charges of godlessness and depravity, false allegation of debauchery, even Chinese food.

Wong organized the Chinese community for political and civil rights, he orgnized the first association of Chinese American voters and also established the Chinese Equal Right League which united the Chinese Americans to fight against the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1892. In 1896, he attempted to create a new political party which could represent Chinese Americans, then corresponded with Sun Yat-sen to propose a Chinese revolutionary junta.

Wong established the first Chinese-language newspaper East of the Rockies, the Chinese American. He crusaded against vice in Chinatown, survived from several assassination attenpted by gangsters and earned conviction for libel of a gangster leader. On the other hand, Wong brought a Chinese theater in New York, established a language school and briefly opened a Confucian temple.