Introduction
On September 2, 1885, a league of bitter white coal miners and their families took guns and axes to attack the local Chinatown, the immigrant workers living there defenseless as they were celebrating a homeland holiday. An estimated over thirty men killed, many more injured, the five hundred Chinese living there fled from the Union Pacific Railroad, where they worked for far lower wages than their white peers in hopes of gathering enough fortune to provide for their families back in China. However, they were tricked into returning by the national guard as well as their company, forced to continue working for barely anything while under threat by their white neighbors, who had no charges placed against them for their crime whatsoever
On September 2, 1885, a league of bitter white coal miners and their families took guns and axes to attack the local Chinatown, the immigrant workers living there defenseless as they were celebrating a homeland holiday. An estimated over thirty men killed, many more injured, the five hundred Chinese living there fled from the Union Pacific Railroad, where they worked for far lower wages than their white peers in hopes of gathering enough fortune to provide for their families back in China. However, they were tricked into returning by the national guard as well as their company, forced to continue working for barely anything while under threat by their white neighbors, who had no charges placed against them for their crime whatsoever