Chinese Massacre of 1871

Gene Tong, a popular herbal-medicine doctor in Los Angeles, was hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in American history.

Long buried, the 1871 Chinese Massacre surfaces amid a significant anniversary and a new wave of violence.

One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.

The greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history, bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel, occurred on a night in 1871.

The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?

The original Los Angeles Chinatown, now known as “Old Chinatown,” developed in the 1860s.

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. It was also part of a larger pattern across the country.

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.

Recognizing that is crucial to ending the violence and the hate driving it.

While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.