January 19, 1930 · Watsonville, California

Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riots Begin

injustice

Content note: this entry describes racial violence.

Five days of mob violence against Filipino farmworkers began Jan 19; on Jan 23, rioters killed 22-year-old Fermin Tobera.

Sources

calendar.eji.org calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jan/19
uchri.org uchri.org/foundry/watsonville-is-in-the-heart

Also on January 19

January 19, 1948 resistance

Oyama v. California Decided

The Supreme Court ruled that California's Alien Land Law, as applied, violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of Fred Oyama, a US citizen whose immigrant father had bought land in his name. The Court did not strike the law itself. (Shares Jan 19 with the 1930 Watsonville anti-Filipino riots.)