1. Race Riots in asian american history
... land they were viewed with disdain in California. In 1852, there were perhaps 10,000 Chinese in the state the anti-Chinese agitation arose in the mining camps. "California Governor John Bigler sent a special message to the legislature insisting, "measures must be adopted to check this tide of Asiatic immigration""(Daniels 35). This would only be the beginning in anti-Asian ... Massacre took place. Two disputing Chinese accidentally killed Robert Thompson. "That evening a mob of about 500 whites killed 19 Chinese and looted Negro Alley. Every Chinese-occupied building on the block was ra...
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