I’m trying to get some of my work organized, and am concerned about accurate tellings of history. I’m studying the Anti-Chinese Movement in California.
Candidate Prompts
What was the Anti-Chinese Movement?
Tell me about the Anti-Chinese Movement, who was in it, who led it, what they did, what speeches and essays were written, what laws they influenced or passed, what politicians they got elected, and the fight against the nativists and bigots, and anything else to bring dimension to this history.
Tell me about Elmer Sandmeyer’s The Anti Chinese Movement in California.
What was the conflict between white labor and Chinese labor?
Who was Denis Kearny?
What was the relationship between the California Workingman’s Party and Denis Kearny?
Who was John Bigler, and what was his relationship to the anti-Chinese Movement?
Who was Leland Stanford, and what was his relationship with the anti-Chinese Movement?
Who was John Boalt, and what was his relationship with the anti-Chinese Movement?
Tell me about immigration from China to the USA in the 1800s.
Research Material
Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
Los Angeles Public Library, Forgotten Los Angeles History, The Chinese Massacre of 1871
How the discovery of a racist speech led to the denaming of Berkeley’s Boalt Hall
Denis Kearney and the California Anti-Chinese Campaign
To Save the Republic: The California Workingmen’s Party in Humboldt County
