Marion Kwan is an activist who was involved in the civil rights movement. Kwan was born in Chinatown in San Francisco, California, in 1942. She graduated from Hastings College in 1965 and later earned a master's degree from San Francisco State University. Kwan worked as a counselor at City College of San Francisco from 1975-2006. She joined the civil rights movement as a member of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the summers of 1965 and 1966. Kwan is also a member of the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. In this interview, Kwan discusses growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown, including connections to Cameron House; family's background and immigration histories; early education; education at City College of San Francisco, Hastings College, and San Francisco State University; personal politics; working with the Delta Ministry in Mississippi in 1965 and 1966, including: decision to join, the potential for violence, local activists like Bob and Alice Beech, grassroots organizing, observations of segregation, experience as an Asian American woman in the South, and the role of women in the movement; visit to the site of the murder of activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; James Meredith and the March Against Fear in 1966; work history, including a Chinatown preschool, the International Rescue Committee in Hong Kong, San Francisco Chinatown YWCA, and City College of San Francisco; continued activism; reflections on the Delta Ministry and civil rights movement; work with the Bay Area Veterans for the Civil Rights Movement; her husband and children; and thoughts on her personal legacy.