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California History 73.1 (1994): 14–29. find a negative impact on Japanese farmers. Bunje, Emil. The Story of Japanese Farming in California (1957) Ferguson, Edwin E. "The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment." California Law Review 35 (1947): 61+. Ichioka, Yuji. "Japanese immigrant response to the 1920 California alien land ...
George Shima (1864 – March 27, 1926) was a Japanese American businessman in California who became the first Japanese American millionaire. [1] At one point, he produced about 85% of the state's potato crop, [ 2 ] which earned him the nickname "The Potato King".
In Los Angeles, the 1913 law led to the development of a triracial hierarchy in the agricultural industry with Japanese farmers occupying the middle position between white land owners, whom they leased land from, and Mexican farmworkers hired by Japanese tenant farmers. [24]
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The City of Los Angeles provided 7.8 acres (3.2 ha) of land at an alternate site, which some of the farmers have relocated to and begun cultivating. The site at 111th Street and Avalon Boulevard has the capacity to hold 200 garden plots. The city also identified 100 other plots for community gardens according to the Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. [19]
By 1941, there were about 36,000 ethnic Japanese people in Los Angeles County. [3] Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized military commanders to exclude "any or all persons" from certain areas in the name of national defense, the Western Defense Command began ordering Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to present ...
Over Wednesday and Thursday, the LAPD arrested at least 20 people for looting homes that were damaged or destroyed by the catastrophic wildfires wrecking havoc in Los Angeles. Around 130,000 ...