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From someone born and raised and living in California: here js a thread of California being racist https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1280511890888613888
The Lemon Grove Incident (1930s):
Lemon Grove School District tried to segregate Mexican students from white students.
Source: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lemon-grove-incident/
Lemon Grove School District tried to segregate Mexican students from white students.
Source: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lemon-grove-incident/
Zoot Suit Riots (1943):
U.S military, off-duty police and civilians fought with Latinx and minorities in LA
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/zoot-suit-riots
https://www.britannica.com/event/Zoot-Suit-Riots
U.S military, off-duty police and civilians fought with Latinx and minorities in LA
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/zoot-suit-riots
https://www.britannica.com/event/Zoot-Suit-Riots
Japanese Internment Camps (1942-1946)
-14 Civilian Assembly Centers
(temporary camps) throughout
California
-2 Relocation Centers in
California
-14 Civilian Assembly Centers
(temporary camps) throughout
California
-2 Relocation Centers in
California
LA Riots of 1992
4 police officers (3 are white) beat Rodney King and got away with it. People were outrages and revolted.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots
4 police officers (3 are white) beat Rodney King and got away with it. People were outrages and revolted.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots
Police Brutality of African American Community lead to the creation of the Black Panther Party in 1966. They were raided by the FBI
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers
Anti-Japanese laundry League (1908): based in San Francisco to financially hurt Japanese Americans (YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LEARN ABOUT IT IN US HISTORY IN HIGH SCHOOL)
San Francisco Riot of 1877:
Persecution of the Chinese community
Persecution of the Chinese community
Sutter Buttes Massacre (1846)
Attacks on Indigenous Californians during their havest to “prevent an attack” on people sent to survey California for the United States
Attacks on Indigenous Californians during their havest to “prevent an attack” on people sent to survey California for the United States
Workingman’s Party of California(1877):
Created to prevent Chinese Immigrants from getting jobs
(Also taught in US History Class in high school)
Created to prevent Chinese Immigrants from getting jobs
(Also taught in US History Class in high school)
Feel free to add to this thread. I’m talking a break to get some sleep
