AANHPI History Calendar

· Washington, D.C. / California

Porterfield v. Webb Decided

injustice

Decided the same day as Terrace v. Thompson, the Supreme Court upheld California's Alien Land Law, ruling the US-Japan treaty gave Japanese immigrants no right to lease agricultural land. (Shares Nov 12 with Terrace v. Thompson.)

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • land
Event type
  • court case

Sources

Also on November 12

injustice

Terrace v. Thompson Decided

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld Washington State's Alien Land Law, allowing states to bar 'aliens ineligible to citizenship'-chiefly Asian immigrants-from owning or leasing farmland.