Discrimination In Chinatown History

From 1849, the beginning of California’s gold rush, to 1940, the Chinese in Chinatown faced harsh lives. The Chinese were never treated fairly-the town was treated like a “different planet altogether,” according to San Francisco's Chronicle. Still, the Chinese persevered and endured through their harsh lives in San Francisco. After struggle after struggle, the organized Chinese reestablished their town, gained strong bonds, and soon became a great landmark of San Francisco. San Francisco's Chinatown was filled with constant danger and racism. The Chinese did not brook the fact that many cruel different groups murdered many of their population. The Chinese stayed resilient through the many attacks and unjust treatment. During the 1860s and 1870s, hate groups against coolies, or the Chinese, formed to move the Chinese away. The hate groups blamed the Chinese of disease, unemployment, …show more content…
The xenophobic whites, on July 23, 1877, held a wide meeting to stop the Pacific Mail Steamship of Chinese immigrants and to send mobs of five-hundred to burn and destroy Chinatown. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, after the Exclusion Act of 1882, formed to make Chinatown less isolated and safer. Their attorneys made the city feed the quarantined Chinatown. The 1906 earthquake struck the Bay Area, and the Chinese were forced to relocate to Van Ness Avenue and then to Hunter’s Point, while wealthy white looters stole valuables from abandoned Chinese homes. Look Tin Eli and Wong Yow, two Chinese representatives, worked with white architects and rebuilt a more advanced Chinatown. Moon and Chinese New Year festivals became city-wide events, and the Chinese were given permission to use fireworks.
A YMCA, a YWCA, and a local library were added to the Chinese welfare.
At the same time, unfortunately, Tongs, murderous gangs in Chinatown, formed, and the Angel Island Interrogation Center detained many Chinese from 1910 to