The 1882 Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country and becoming citizens. It also ushered in the most violent decade in Chinese-American history, with assault, arson and murder becoming ever-present dangers for a people marginali
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The flow of immigration (encouraged by the Burlingame Treaty of 1868) was stopped by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. This act outlawed all Chinese immigration to the United States and denied citizenship to those already settled in the country. Renewed
Continue reading >>In the 1870s several economic crises came about in parts of the United States, and many Americans lost their jobs, from which arose throughout the American West an anti-Chinese movement and its main mouthpiece, the Workingman's Party labor organization, w
Continue reading >>In his book published in 1890, How The Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis characterized the Chinese of New York as "a constant and terrible menace to society",[73] who "are in no sense a desirable element of the population"[74] Riis was referring to the reputat
Continue reading >>Chew Wong Hoy had been prepared for this eventuality. He immediately hired the San Francisco law firm of McGowan and Worley who were known as specialists in the field of Chinese immigration.
Continue reading >>Law Shee Low was a Chinese woman from a tiny village, Kai Gok, in Guangdong province who emigrated to the United States with her new husband in 1922. Law married a Gold Mountain man - a Chinese who had immigrated to the United States earlier and returned
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