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Did they use white facilities, or black?

By Asian I mean chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.

2007-04-17 09:31:12 · 4 answers · asked by koreaguy12 6 in Arts & Humanities History

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"Chinese labor was integral to the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. After that project was completed, many workers relocated and looked for employment elsewhere, such as in farming, manufacturing firms, garment industries, and paper mills. However, widespread anti-Chinese discrimination and violence from whites, including riots and murders, drove many into self-employment."

"Across the country, Chinese immigrants clustered in Chinatowns. The largest population was in San Francisco. Some estimated over half of these early immigrants were from Taishan.[citation needed] The flow of immigration (encouraged by the Burlingame Treaty of 1868) was stopped by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. This act outlawed all Chinese immigration to the United States and denied citizenship to those already settled in the country. Renewed in 1892 and extended indefinitely in 1902, the Chinese population declined until the act was repealed in 1943. Official discrimination extended to the highest levels of the U.S. government: in 1888, U.S. President Grover Cleveland, who supported the Chinese Exclusion Act, proclaimed the Chinese "an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare.""

"Many Western states also enacted discriminatory laws which made it difficult for Chinese and Japanese immigrants to own land and find work. These laws were not overturned until the 1950s, at the dawn of the modern American civil rights movement."

"Chinese immigration to the United States" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_the_United_States

"Asian American Immigration History" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American_Immigration_History

2007-04-17 10:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0 1

There were virtually no Asians in those states that imposed forced racial segregation; those few who were were willy nilly regarded as "white". The major prejudice against Japanese and Chinese (I don't know of any significant numbers of Koreans) occurred in California, the place most arrived. San Francisco and Los Angeles (and for that matter New York) have famed "Chinatowns". These were partly formed from the prejudice, language barriers and economics that forced most recent immigrant groups to cluster together, but endured longer than others.

2007-04-17 09:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by obelix 6 · 1 0

black fighter pilots interior the army airforce. Asian kidas went to college with whites,until eventually ultimately the bombing of pearl harbor.the asians grew to become into moved tp enterm camps.the asians had there on colleges. the blacks had there on colleges,and the KKK grew to become into the enimies The black fiter pilots grew to become the suitable,The Nisans infantrymen grew to become the suitable interior the army.

2016-12-29 05:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

they have their own communities, and they would have their bathrooms there

2007-04-17 09:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by Celia 4 · 0 0

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