Browse Collections (59 total)
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…
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…
Snake River Massacre (1887)
Details concerning the lynching of Chinese gold miner immigrants in Snake River/Hells Canyon, Oregon in 1887.
Charles Sumner
A White, Boston, Massachusetts born attorney, abolitionist, U.S. Senator, Radical Republican leader and author of the nation's first Civil Rights…
Transcontinental Railroad (Chinese Contributions)
Focus on the Chinese immigrant experience and contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad project (1863-1869), which connected the Atlantic and…
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…
Cainhoy Massacre
A shootout between Black militia and White gunmen at a Republican political gathering outside of Charleston, South Carolina on October 26,…
Denis Kearney
An Irish immigrant and California leader of the Workingmen's Labor Party known for anti-Chinese sentiments and racial terror.
Martin Delany
Born of a free mother in Charles Town, West Virginia, raised in Pennsylvannia, opened a medical practice, became an abolitionist, Africa…
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…
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…
Samuel Ward
Born enslaved in Maryland, his family escaped to New Jersey/New York in the early 1800s. Later became a minister, newspaper editor, author, and…
David Hunter
A White, controversial, New York-born Union Army General known for issuing an unauthorized emancipation declaration for all enslaved people in the…
Wade Hampton III
A White Confederate general and South Carolina Governor and Senator (D-SC) during Reconstruction. Opponent of Reconstruction.
William James Whipper
A free born Pennsylvania businessman, abolitionist and civil rights attorney who was married to Frances Anne Rollin (Black suffragette,…
The Mather School
A Reconstruction Era boarding school for newly freed girls in Beaufort, South Carolina.