The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that San Francisco schools' failure to provide English-language support to Chinese-speaking students violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Angel Island Immigration Station opened in San Francisco Bay; often called the 'Ellis Island of the West,' it processed-and, under the exclusion laws, often detained and interrogated-hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants until 1940. (Shares Jan 21 with Lau v. Nichols and the Monterey Park shooting.)
A gunman killed 11 people, most of them older Asian Americans, at a dance studio during Lunar New Year celebrations in the majority-Asian city; investigators cited a personal rather than racial motive. (Shares Jan 21 with Lau v. Nichols.)