AANHPI History Calendar

· Eureka, California

Eureka Chinese Expulsion

injustice

Content note: this entry describes racial violence.

After a city councilman was killed by a stray bullet, a mob expelled virtually the entire Chinese community-about 480 people-from Eureka within two days, a 'method' that spread across the West. (Shares Feb 7 with the 1886 Seattle expulsion.)

Communities
  • Chinese American
Event type
  • expulsion
  • racial violence
  • violence

Sources

Also on February 7

injustice

Seattle Anti-Chinese Expulsion

A mob tied to the Knights of Labor rounded up most of Seattle's Chinese residents and forced them toward a waiting steamship; violence, federal troops, and martial law followed. (Shares Feb 7 with the 1885 Eureka expulsion.)

Content note: racial violence