Page Act Signed Into Law
The first restrictive federal immigration law effectively barred Chinese women by presuming them to be immoral.
On this day
March 3
Tape v. Hurley Decided
The California Supreme Court ruled that Chinese American children like Mamie Tape could not be barred from public school; San Francisco responded by opening a segregated 'Chinese' school. (Shares Mar 3 with the 1875 Page Act.)