Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
One century ago, on July 12, 1925, in Toledo, Oregon, a mob of White rioters expelled Issei (pioneers from Japan) laborers and others from a sawmill. In the aftermath of the first civil rights lawsuit, the jury of a federal district court in Portland deemed Issei laborers to have the right to live and work … Read more
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