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Racism Against Chinese in the US Timeline

Year

What

1850

Foreign Miner Tax.  Tax per head.  Up to 50% of budget for state of California.

1854

Chinese Can't Give Court Testimony

1856

One of the earliest violence against Chinese.  Miners beat up outside of Yreka (where my grandmother lived).

1862

Police Tax, where any Chinese over 18 and not in the mining industry had to pay $2.50 per month.  Ruled unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court in 1863.

1870

Cerro Goldo Mine cave in.  35 Chinese Miners killed.  Mine was not shored up.

1870’s

Anti-Coolie Associations formed. 

1871

19 Chinese killed.  Worst anti-Chinese rioting up to that time.  Los Angeles riots.  Chinese barred from testifying in court.

1872

Chinese now allowed to give court testimony.

1878

Ah Yup" – Chinese can’t become US citizens.

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - Bars entry of Chinese Women to US except for relatives.  Result is high proportion of single men.

1880 

California law bars marriage between whites and Mongolians (Chinese).

1885

Wyoming Riots.  28+ Chinese Miners killed.

1886

Riots against Chinese in West Coast including Washington and Portland.  Many Chinese move from West Coast to avoid violence (which is why there are Chinatowns in Chicago, New York, Boston, etc.).

1886

31 Miners killed in Snake River Oregon.  Not found out about till 1996.

1897 

U.S. VS. WONG KIM ARK – Establishes citizen rights for children born in US, even if parents are not US citizens.

1892

Geary Act – Extends Chinese exclusion act.

1913

Alien Land Act – forbids anyone who can’t become a citizen (Chinese), from owning land.

1924

Cable Act.  Chinese not allowed to inter-marry whites.  So a US citizen, woman who married a Chinese citizen was no longer a US citizen.

1936

Cable act repealed.

1943

Changes to immigration act - China was an ally to US during WW2

1948

California Supreme Court in Perez Vs. Sharp rules Anti-Miscegenation Laws are not legal.

1958

94% of whites oppose interracial marriage per a Gallup Poll.

1965

Changes to immigration law.  Immigration quotas are eliminated.

1967

Anti-Miscegenation Laws overturned – Loving vs. Virginia .  Chinese not allowed to marry between races overturned.

1982

Vincent Chen killed in Detroit.  Mistaken for Japanese.  People killing him get no jail time.

1992

Affirmative action lawsuit filed against UC systems claiming a quota system was discriminating against Asian American enrollment.

1998

California State proposition passes that prohibits taking into account race for college admissions

1999

Wen Ho Lee is accused of giving secrets to Chinese Government (even through he is from Taiwan).  Case is finally dropped.  Judge apologizes to Wen Ho Lee for how he is treated.

2006

Lawsuit filed against Princeton for discrimination in admission practices.  Quote is are the Chinese being treated as Jews were in the 1920-1940 for College Admissions?


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