Additionally from “Farming the Home Place: Taking Root in a Harsh Land”, there was multiple offenses of vigilante violence against Japanese farmers in Turlock, California. This was more physical violence by groups of local people. At night people would rob the Japanese ranchers, or escalate it to the point of which they would actually drive them out of the town and warn them to not return. This showed that the local people from the same area were not accepting of anyone who was Japanese. Also this type of prejudice was direct at the individual, the laws made about purchasing land were against Japanese as a group. The vigilante violence was made much more personal, to really make the Japanese feel unwelcome in the United States. The “Library
