Archive for July 31st, 2007
And when they came with their torches and nooses, the Chinese fled to restaurants
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Denver Riot of 1880
Jean Pfaezer’s new book: Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans is thoughtfully reviewed this Sunday in The New York Times. The book chronicles the waves of anti-Chinese violence that hit the West in the late 1800s, which culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in stages from 1882 to 1902, […]