May 14, 1905

injustice

Asiatic Exclusion League Formed

Labor leaders and others met in San Francisco to launch the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League (later the Asiatic Exclusion League), which grew to claim 100,000 members and drove anti-Asian agitation and legislation across the West. (Shares May 14 with the Hmong airlift from Long Tieng and the injunction protecting Vietnamese fishermen.)

Sources

  1. oac.cdlib.org oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89k4c1p
  2. encyclopedia.densho.org encyclopedia.densho.org/Anti-Japanese_exclusion_movement

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