Article: How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

Chinese Massacre of 1871

Article: How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

03/10/2011

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The Los Angeles Weekly features a March 10, 2011 article by John Johnson, Jr. that provides a perspective on why Los Angeles covered up and forgot the Chinese Massacre of 1871, a violent massacre where 17 Chinese people were murdered by a White mob in Los Angeles. The author gives an account of the massacre’s development and provides a perspective on the origins of the violence, detailing how a Chinese woman was kidnapped “by a rival Chinese company.”

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