Anti-Chinese violence in Oregon
In Oregon, mobs drove Chinese workers out of small towns and workplaces territory-wide in the Winter of 1885 and Summer of 1886.[1] Many of the Chinese expelled across Oregon made their way to Portland, where they settled in the city's Chinatown. In Portland the Chinese were tolerated in part because of its close commercial shipping ties to China.[1]
In 1886 an anti-Chinese convention was held for the entire Pacific coast in Portland.[2] Governor Sylvester Pennoyer penned a letter on March 15 of that year, advocating that "legal" means such as officially sanctioned boycotts should be used to remove Chinese people from the state.[3]
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See also[]
- Chinese American history
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- Chinese Massacre Cove in Wallowa County
- Scott Act, 1888 and Geary Act, 1892
- Anti-Chinese violence in California
- Anti-Chinese violence in Washington
- Chinese massacre of 1871
- San Francisco riot of 1877
- Rock Springs massacre, 1885
- Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885
- Tacoma riot of 1885
- Seattle riot of 1886
- Hells Canyon massacre, 1887
- Torreón massacre, 1911 in Mexico
- Lone Fir Cemetery
- Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic#Oregon
- Racism in Oregon § Anti-Chinese exclusion laws, expulsions, massacres: 1862–1920s
References[]
- ^ a b "Lesson Fifteen: Industrialization, Class, and Race: Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late 19th-Century Northwest," History of Washington State & the Pacific Northwest, Center for Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Retrieved March 12, 2007.
- ^ Carey, Charles H. (1922). History of Oregon. p. 828.
- ^ "Pennoyer's Letter! The Famous Anti-Chinese Letter. Read! Read! Read!". The Eugene City Guard. May 22, 1886.
External links[]
- Floor speech by US Senator John H. Mitchell on anti-Chinese violence, in 1886.
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- Chinese-American culture in Oregon
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