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1850
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Foreign
Miner Tax. Tax per head. Up to 50% of budget for state of California.
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1854
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Chinese Can't Give Court Testimony
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1856
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One
of the earliest
violence against Chinese. Miners
beat up outside of Yreka (where my grandmother lived).
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1862
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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.
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1870
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Cerro
Goldo Mine cave in. 35 Chinese Miners
killed. Mine was not shored up.
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1870’s
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Anti-Coolie
Associations formed.
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1871
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19
Chinese killed. Worst anti-Chinese
rioting up to that time. Los Angeles riots. Chinese barred from testifying in court.
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1872
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Chinese
now allowed to give court testimony.
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1878
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Ah
Yup" – Chinese can’t become US citizens.
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1882
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Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882 - Bars entry of Chinese Women to US except for
relatives. Result is high proportion
of single men.
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1880
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California
law bars marriage between whites and Mongolians (Chinese).
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1885
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Wyoming Riots. 28+ Chinese Miners killed.
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1886
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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.).
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1886
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31
Miners killed in Snake River Oregon. Not found out about till 1996.
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1897
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U.S.
VS. WONG KIM ARK – Establishes citizen rights for children
born in US, even if parents are not US citizens.
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1892
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Geary
Act – Extends Chinese exclusion act.
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1913
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Alien Land Act – forbids anyone who can’t
become a citizen (Chinese), from owning land.
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1924
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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.
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1936
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Cable
act repealed.
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1943
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Changes
to immigration act - China
was an ally to US during WW2
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1948
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California
Supreme Court in Perez Vs. Sharp rules
Anti-Miscegenation Laws are not legal.
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1958
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94%
of whites oppose interracial marriage per a Gallup
Poll.
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1965
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Changes
to immigration law. Immigration quotas
are eliminated.
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1967
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Anti-Miscegenation Laws
overturned – Loving vs. Virginia
. Chinese not allowed to marry between
races overturned.
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1982
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Vincent
Chen killed in Detroit. Mistaken for Japanese. People killing him get no jail time.
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1992
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Affirmative
action lawsuit filed against UC systems claiming a quota system was discriminating
against Asian American enrollment.
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1998
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California State proposition passes that
prohibits taking into account race for college admissions
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1999
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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.
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2006
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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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