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1839-1860 |
British waged disastrous opium wars on China. British gain control of Hong Kong |
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1849-1882 |
Chinese laborers actively recruited by American companies for work in the "Golden Mountains" |
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1854 |
California Supreme Court ruled Chinese could not testify for or against a white person in court |
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1867 |
7000 Chinese railroad workers laid down their tools and went on strike against Central Pacific Railroad |
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1869 |
12000 Chinese completed the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad |
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1871 |
MOB attacks and pillages the Los Angeles Chinese district. 18 Chinese murdered |
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1878 |
Chinese denied the right to become American citizens by the U.S. Supreme Court |
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1885 |
Rock Springs (Wyoming)Massacre. 28 Chinese shot dead. Houses burned to the ground |
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1882, 1888, 1902, 1924 |
U.S. Congress enacted Chinese Exclusion Laws prohibiting Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. |
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1888 |
Lue Gim Gong developed a variety of oranges still honored by his name |
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1898 |
Wong Kim Ark v. U.S. Supreme Court concedes that a child born in the US of Chinese descent is a citizen of US |
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1905 |
Chinese workers in China boycotted American goods to protest the terrible treatment of Chinese in the U.S. |
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1906 |
San Francisco earthquake leveled Chinatown |
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1909 |
Fong Joe Guey became the first Asian to build and first person to fly a plane on the West Coast |
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1909-1949 |
Angel Island Detention Center - 14 states in U.S. forbade Chinese marrying whites or natualization of them |
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1911 |
Nationalist Revolution, Republic of China Founded, Sun Yat Sen elected first President |
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1924 |
Immigration Act prohibited Chinese men from bringing wives or children. Previous to this, they could. |
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1937 |
Sino Japanese War begins |
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1938 |
San Francisco national dollar chain store strike |
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1949 |
Communist revolution. The people's Republic of China was founded. Mao Tse Tung became Chairman |
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1950s |
McCarthy witchhunts plagued Chinatowns in the U.S. |
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1968 |
Immigration Quotas for Asian immigration removed |
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1969 |
Asian American studies programs were established for the first time. |
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1969-1972 |
Asian-Americans organized contingents to participate in Anti-Vietnam War Movement |
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1974 |
Lau v. Nichols, Landmark Supreme Court decision acknowledged the right for bilingual/bicultural education in public schools. |
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1969-78 |
International hotel fight for low-income housing, San Francisco, CA |
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1974 |
Confucius Plaza demonstrations - New York city |
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1977 |
Bakke v. University of California-Davis, Affirmative Action programs threatened by "Reverse Discrimination" charge |
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1980 |
The PRC removed restrictions on emigration leading to the immigration of college students and professionals. These recent groups of Chinese tended to cluster in suburban areas and avoid urban Chinatowns. Immigrants from mainland China soared mainly with students and professionals coming to study or to work in academies as well as undocumented aliens in search of lower-status manual jobs. |
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1989 |
Tiananmen Square Massacre incurred President Bush’s order of amnesty to the Chinese in the U.S. |
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