🇺🇸 "Local and state laws quickly targeted Chinese immigrants, often forcing them to pay fees and abandon their traditional methods of doing things. Government employment, and even the use of public schools, was banned for the Chinese. Courts typically excluded testimony from Chinese immigrants, meaning any legal disputes between Chinese and white residents would almost automatically be decided in favor of the white party."

Rust, Owen. "The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/chinese-exclusion-act-1882/ (accessed April 3, 2024). #History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Racism #Immigration #C19th #19thCentury #China #Asia @histodon @histodons