Today in Labor History September 2, 1885: 150 white miners, mostly affiliated with the Knights of Labor, attacked their Chinese fellow workers in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming. As a result, they killed 28 Chinese miners, wounded 15 others and forced all the other Chinese to flee town. By the time the federal troops arrived, there were no surviving Chinese people left in town. The bosses had been preferentially hiring the Chinese immigrants at lower wages than the European immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in 1882, also contributed by fanning the flames of anti-Asian bigotry.

You can read my entire article on the history anti-Asian hate in the U.S. here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/americas-long-sordid-history-of-anti-asian-violence/

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