One October day in 1871, a 500-strong mob stormed Los Angeles’ Chinatown and in two hours slaughtered 19 Chinese. The massacre was just one instance of the hostility directed at ‘job-stealing’ Chinese immigrants in the American West that in 1882 led to a US ban on immigration from China that lasted until 1943.
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