Chronology Entry
Year
1850-1882
Text
California and the Chinese immigrants.
Most of the Chinese immigrants were railroad workers, miners, laundrymen and domestic servant.
1850 : California law provided that 'no black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a White man'.
1852 : California's Supreme Court declared that the Chinese could not be trusted as witnesses in a court of law.
1854 : The Times ; 26. Sept.
Several Chinese vessels have lately been seized for carrying an excess of passengers... the Chinese were packed in the fashion of a hencoop... One hundred of the passengers died on the voyage, and nearly all the rest are sick with the scurvy and are dying off very fast.
1871 : A mob of over 500 Caucasians entered Los Angeles' Chinatown to ransack Chinese-occupied buildings, and killed more than 20 Chinese residents.
1873 Revided California Code of Civil Procedure : witnesses were admitted to the courts of California regardless of color and nationality.
1882 : The statute prohibited any Chinese laborer from entering the U.S., and barred any state or federal court from naturalizing any Chinese.
Most of the Chinese immigrants were railroad workers, miners, laundrymen and domestic servant.
1850 : California law provided that 'no black, or Mulatto person, or Indian shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a White man'.
1852 : California's Supreme Court declared that the Chinese could not be trusted as witnesses in a court of law.
1854 : The Times ; 26. Sept.
Several Chinese vessels have lately been seized for carrying an excess of passengers... the Chinese were packed in the fashion of a hencoop... One hundred of the passengers died on the voyage, and nearly all the rest are sick with the scurvy and are dying off very fast.
1871 : A mob of over 500 Caucasians entered Los Angeles' Chinatown to ransack Chinese-occupied buildings, and killed more than 20 Chinese residents.
1873 Revided California Code of Civil Procedure : witnesses were admitted to the courts of California regardless of color and nationality.
1882 : The statute prohibited any Chinese laborer from entering the U.S., and barred any state or federal court from naturalizing any Chinese.
Subjects
History : China - United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 2010 | Ou, Hsin-yun. Mark Twain's racial ideologies and his portrayal of the Chinese. In : Concentric : literary and cultural studies ; vol. 36, no 2 (2010). | Publication / Twa10 |
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