Los Angeles, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, was an isolated and rough-hewn town, known for its lawlessness and disorder. A small population of Chinese immigrants from Guangdong Province made their way there, working as laundrymen, or as household cooks and servants; some leased sma ...
Cultural Comment The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation By October 26, 2016 n June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven-year-old working as an industrial draftsman at an engineering firm, was out with his friends at the Fancy Pants stri ...
https://voteview.com/ http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/makingmodernus/exhibits/show/chineseexclusionact1882/item/482 http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/makingmodernus/exhibits/show/chineseexclusionact1882/item/484 The bill was passed by the house on April 17, 1882.
The town of Downieville, California, situated at a fork of the Yuba River, about seventy-five miles northeast of Sacramento, began as one of the gold rush’s earliest mining camps. It quickly became a hub for miners in the region—a place where they could restock their provisions and find amusement ...