Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Kearnyites
a group started in San Francisco by Irish-born Denis Kearny; he urged his followers to violently abuse the Chinese immigrants; many Kearnyites were recently arrived European immigrants who disliked the competition for cheap labor caused by the Chinese immigrants; they terrorized Chinese immigrants by cutting off their pigtails & sometimes murdered them; part of the cause of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882
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