Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riots Begin
Five days of mob violence against Filipino farmworkers began Jan 19; on Jan 23, rioters killed 22-year-old Fermin Tobera.
Content note: racial violence.
On this day
January 19
Oyama v. California Decided
The Supreme Court ruled that California's Alien Land Law, as applied, violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of Fred Oyama, a US citizen whose immigrant father had bought land in his name. The Court did not strike the law itself. (Shares Jan 19 with the 1930 Watsonville anti-Filipino riots.)