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Prevented everyone except for freed slaves and white people from being citizens of the United States. Asians were not allowed to be considered citizens of the United States. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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Thousands of Chinese worked hard to build the American railroads. In 1867 thousands of Chinese railroad workers went on strike as an effort to be paid as much as their white co-workers. After a week their food supply was cut off which forced them to go back to work. They managed to gain slightly higher pay as a result of the strike. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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500 people raided China town and robbed, assaulted, and killed innocent and peaceful Chinese residents. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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Enforced the exclusion of Chinese immigrating and becoming citizens of the United States. It also restricted Asians in the United States from owning land. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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Brutally ordered thousands of Japanese to relocate to internment camps where they lived in terrible conditions. An insightful video:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/children-in-internment-camps-a-japanese-am/?jwsource=cl https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf -
A repeal of the Chinese Exclusion act but still made it difficult for Chinese to enter into the United States. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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Declared that "no person shall receive any preference or priority or be discriminated against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of his race, sex, nationality, place of birth, or place of residence." A large number of Asian immigrants flocked to the United States. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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A court case that made interracial marriage legal. After this case, Asian Americans (and other races) were able to marry whoever they wanted. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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A student-led strike that resulted in more diverse classes in university. Asian-Americans played a large role in participating in and organizing this strike. Ethnic study classes are a direct result of this strike and others like it. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
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Granted reparations of 20,000 dollars to victims of the Japanese internment camps. I was an attempt made by the US government to apologize and compensate for the injustice performed against the Japanese Americans. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Unnoticed-Struggle.pdf
