February 7, 1886

injustice

Seattle Anti-Chinese Expulsion

Content note This entry describes racial violence.

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.)

Sources

  1. historylink.org historylink.org/file/2745
  2. iexaminer.org iexaminer.org/seattles-anti-chinese-race-riot-february-7-1886-the-day-seattle-imploded

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