· San Francisco, California

Tape v. Hurley Decided

resistance

The California Supreme Court ruled that Chinese American children like Mamie Tape could not be barred from public school; San Francisco responded by opening a segregated 'Chinese' school. (Shares Mar 3 with the 1875 Page Act.)

Communities
  • Chinese American
Topics
  • education
Event type
  • court case

Sources

  • blogs.loc.gov blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/05/before-brown-v-education-there-was-tape-v-hurley
  • nps.gov nps.gov/people/mary-tape.htm

Also on March 3

injustice

Page Act Signed Into Law

The first restrictive federal immigration law effectively barred Chinese women by presuming them to be immoral.