The Development of the Anti-Japanese Agitation in the United States - 1922

Perry is discussed, and then immigration.

The history of Japanese immigration to the U.S.

Japan wanted to make sure that the people emigrating from Japan were of good quality.

1900 protests, and the bubonic plague.

Japan kept trying to make nice; the AFL was against the Japanese.

Union vs. non-union politics.

The Kaiser and “yellow peril.”

Economic charges against the Japanese.

The newspapers on the attack.

More on labor and politics, the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League, and Japan still trying to make nice.

Not all Californians hated the Japanese.

Teddy Roosevelt's stand. He was the President of the U.S.

The politicians of San Francisco, and the great earthquake.

More problems for the Japanese as a result of the earthquake, and protests against Japanese restaurants.

Physical attacks on the Japanese. The school board of San Francisco segregates the Japanese children, and both the Democrats and Republicans want exclusion of the Japanese.

More on the school board crisis.

The European press thought there was going to be a war between the U.S. and Japan quite soon.

Laws against the Japanese were presented to the California legislature on a regular basis.

The school board backs down.

A year later, and more talk about a possible war.

Canada also had a problem over Japanese immigration.

More on the exclusion league.



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