Browse Collections (59 total)
Chinese Six Companies
Organized in the 1850s in San Francisco and formally established in 1882. An organization of the six most powerful Chinese companies in California…
Chinese Exclusion Act
The 1882 federal law that suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years and rendered them ineligible for citizenship. A series of…
Martin Delany
Born of a free mother in Charles Town, West Virginia, raised in Pennsylvannia, opened a medical practice, became an abolitionist, Africa…
Denis Kearney
An Irish immigrant and California leader of the Workingmen's Labor Party known for anti-Chinese sentiments and racial terror.
Cainhoy Massacre
A shootout between Black militia and White gunmen at a Republican political gathering outside of Charleston, South Carolina on October 26,…
Anson Burlingame & Burlingame Treaty of 1868
A White New Berlin, New York born, attorney, abolitionist, U.S. diplomat to China, and chief architect of the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Treaty…
Transcontinental Railroad (Chinese Contributions)
Focus on the Chinese immigrant experience and contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad project (1863-1869), which connected the Atlantic and…
Charles Sumner
A White, Boston, Massachusetts born attorney, abolitionist, U.S. Senator, Radical Republican leader and author of the nation's first Civil Rights…
Snake River Massacre (1887)
Details concerning the lynching of Chinese gold miner immigrants in Snake River/Hells Canyon, Oregon in 1887.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
A San Francisco, California-born man, born of Chinese immigrant parents, sued the federal government over birthright citizenship based on the 14th…
Horace Page & Page Act of 1875
A White, California Congressman who was responsible for the Page Act of 1875, which prevented the immigration of Chinese women to the United…
Geary Act of 1892
Details about the 1892 addition to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that required Chinese immigrants to carry a residential permit at all times or…
Chinese Massacre of 1871
Focus on the events that led up to, and the aftermath of, the October 24, 1871 mass lynching of Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles,…
President Andrew Johnson's Transition (c. April 1865)
Highlights of events that took place after President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial and acquittal.
Andrew Johnson's Presidency (1865 to mid-1867 before Impeachment)
Highlights of Johnson's presidency before the impeachment charges.
Brick Baptist Church
Historical church and learning center for formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War on St. Helena Island in Beaufort, South…